Some things the author did not consider.<p>- How is this different from the likes of Netflix et al, where content lives on a single platform?<p>- Is Spotify really an ad platform? I pay for it and never hear ads anywhere, same for YouTube.<p>- Spotify does not censor JRE, which is one of his primary reasons for leaving YT. Iirc, he said he was making more over there, but YT was demonetizing videos without explanation, and he felt that was a form of censorship. Not direct banning, more like <a href="https://socialcooling.com" rel="nofollow">https://socialcooling.com</a>