i have no proof, but im semi sure that this way you cannot sign up with a temp mail or temp sms, so you are kinda forced to use your real data, which means the site is selling your data
you can look around for cracked spotify or other cracked stuff on the mobilism forums, but spotify sometimes bans those cliens, and might shadowban your account as well.
whatever you do, you gonna support the devil by choosing any mainstream music service. so keep using them for free and support the bands with money or going to concerts. discs are overrated, merch gives them low commission.
if you wait a few hours the "you should selfhost" comments will arrive.
i can understand this. most articles are designed in order to waste the reader's time on the site to show more ads. we can can all cry around the fire like we usually do on lemmy when ai comes up, but this was clearly caused by journalism.
my main concern however is bloated browsers. i dont want pocket, or hidden syncing and telemetry, ai and whatever the fuck goes on in the background. takes a lot less to add ecosia and enable cookies for librewolf than debloat firefox.
wont play cod cause it has an ewaste gpu anyway.