Spotify will increase control of family accounts

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One of the options that is widely used when accessing Spotify is the family account subscription, this allows six users to take advantage of the Premium options with a really attractive price. One of the things that have to be fulfilled to access this possibility is that everyone lives in the same place. And, it seems, the company will try to take more control over it.

The truth is that the aforementioned requirement is somewhat diffuse and complicated to control - there are few who skip this - since there are families that do not live together temporarily (an example are work destinations or have a child in college ). The case is that the information when registering in the family account, in which location is used, will be controlled in a much more habitual way by Spotify, since in the signature they are quite clear that there are not a few users They abuse this possibility that allows them to save up to almost four times the standard price.

More control over family accounts on Spotify, and it will get heavy

And to do this they have thought, at least for the moment, is to activate one of the new options that have been added to the terms of use of the service in family accounts in the month of August this year: periodically review the information of the place where you live. And how will they do this? Well, by constantly asking users questions to confirm that the data they have is correct.

It is true that there are more options (and less intrusive than this), but their effectiveness is not exactly perfect. An example is the location using the GPS data of the terminal that is used ... but this has already been tried not long ago - more or less a year ago - and the results were not exactly good since on the one hand the privacy was in game and also it was easy to skip this by deactivating the location of the terminals. The case is that now begins with questions, something that does not point to being much more effective, which is something that can tire more than one and therefore more than one can think of changing service and moving to competition as those They offer Amazon or Apple-.

This is inevitable, for the moment ...

We will see if this ends up being habitual or, finally, Spotify ends up throwing in the towel with this new option since if the periodicity is very high the inconvenience is assured, at least in our opinion. It does not seem precisely a success, although it is true that there are few who use family accounts fraudulently. We will have to see how this evolves, but the bombardment of questions is included in the new terms of service of the firm, so nothing is done that is precisely illegal.