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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.20-181313/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-20/porn-on-spotify-is-infiltrating-the-streaming-service-s-top-podcast-charts

These programs don’t contain video but are sexually explicit with show or episode titles often marked by the creator as “NSFW,” or “not safe for work.” The creators sometimes instruct their fans to rate the content poorly on purpose so that Spotify doesn’t detect it. They also sometimes ask listeners not to report the shows if they don’t like what they’re hearing or seeing. When I reached out, Spotify also removed these programs for violating the platform’s terms of use.

Sexually explicit material has persisted on Spotify for years, but the issue resurfaced in December when a Reddit user noticed the service’s algorithm recommending porn. Some users on the videos I spotted this week also commented. Why, they wondered, were they being served this content when searching for music?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The tech sector has a massive diversity problem. Lots of young men raised with one hand on their dick watching porn while reading libertarian propaganda. I get why vulture capitalists want naive, manipulable children running their businesses but I wish real adults were in charge.

I have left multiple platforms that don't offer parental controls, family sharing etc. Fortunately better alternatives exist to all these platforms.

As a older man and father I think these people are pathetic little children and I avoid shitty commercial social media in my house and around my family. Unfortunately they are still having a devastating impact on society.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Back when I still used Spotify it would regularly recommend to me podcasts more offensive than porn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They do have the rights to Joe Rogan...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

id say theres much more offensive ones out there than joe rogan. hes very surface level

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just want to remove podcasts and audiobooks from my homepage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

but think of the shareholders! How would they feel if the company stoped growing? They need to cram their attempt at an audio content monopoly down your throat or else they’d only just be a music streaming monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I found one selling benzos the other day, honestly insane that they aren't moderating this because it wasn't even slightly obscured..

Like I know you can buh drugs on literally any platform, but a music streaming service? Feels too far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that archive.is is antagonistic to VPN users. I can't read this story via either link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you know of a different archival service that’s popular enough to carry this kind of content then I’m open to suggestions. By the time I post this stuff archive.is already has a copy but other ones I check don’t.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

ghostarchive is my preferred method. Usually only takes 1-2 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s still a bit hit or miss at the time I’m posting stuff. If I submit news for archival I’m getting an archive of a paywall very often. It happens with archive.is too but not that frequently.

I’m putting this for everyone’s convenience but I also don’t want to make a job for myself out of this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's fair. Posting the original source and letting the rest of us figure out how to get to the story with our own methods is perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is it just archive.is that's an issue, or do all the archive.whatevers have the same issue. I tend to use archive.ph.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are all synonyms for archive.today

whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md

Try any of their URL's but just change the TLD and you will see that page is always archived on all of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Archive.ph suffers from the same problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Okay, glad I'm not the only one who noticed strange omegaverse podcasts on Spotify.