I read an article last year claiming Deezer was playing the ads, but I cannot find it, in fact all I am finding is evidence of the opposite. Thanks for asking about it. I will retract my claim.

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Deezer played ICE recruitment ads too. So did Pandora.

How is this different from the Firefox extension called ‘Session Manager’ that exists?

Exactly. None of the cloud-based LLMs are impartial on politics.

How is giving something, that is nondeterministic, access to your web browser a good idea? How do you guarantee that it doesn’t enter sensitive information without the user’s explicit consent? How do you guarantee privacy and security?

I’m skeptical, but I am genuinely asking and willing to listen.

I recently did a rpi media player project and tried volumio, picoreplayer, moode, and others. I ultimately settled on installing android from konstakang.com. It was so much easier to set up imo for my use case, which was a focus on local music playback and keeping the files sync’d via my LAN. It even supported my hat DAC and my remote control.