A Reddit user Reeceeboii_ highlights, any time you share a song from within Spotify, it generates a unique tracking URL linked to your account. Spotify can join the dots between the sender and receiver whenever anyone clicks on this unique URL. People have allegedly noticed that Spotify has retroactively filled out the history of song shares in the Messages feature, which is possible through these tracking URLs.
I don’t understand why Spotify even needs a messaging feature. This seems like one of the most useless additions, as people who share music from the Spotify app are usually sharing it with a friend via an existing messaging service.
Why the fuck does Spotify need a messages feature in the first place? Who was asking for this?
Yet another reason why privacy focussed tools should be automatically stripping those out. I use an app on mobile and do it manually on desktop, but it’s still tedious at times
