I DON'T WANT TO BE CONNECTED TO FACEBOOK

[hatefacebook2]

Hi,

Everytime I log into Sportify it connects to my Facebook. Despite the fact that I tried to uninstall the app on Facebook, and changed my settings in Spotify. Can you please help me to get rid of this??

[Stupify]

Do you have a Spotify username? If you don't, you must have a Facebook connection, it is mandatory for all users who signed up after September 22nd 2011.

If you signed up before that date, you have a custom username and password and you can disconnect at preferences. There's a button to "Disconnect from Facebook".

[hazzelqvirre]

This is not truely a disconnect from facebook. I go to preferenses and it gives me the option to "connect to facebook", but if I click that all my facebookfriends show up to the right without me having logged in. Also, my facebook profile picture is shown in the top right corner of spotify. = Enough clues to tell me my spotify-account and my facebook account are actually connected, regardless of what I choose.

Frankly, this sucks, I don't like facebook knowing who I am at all, and you have all my info. I have never given you permission to connect the two. Please advice on how to really get rid of this connection between my two accounts at these two completly different services.

[Stupify]

I've asked multiple times and never received a response on what exactly makes a Spotify and Facebook account become connected. Now that it's actually a problem to someone, Spotify customer support really needs to step it up and tell us how to avoid connecting to Facebook.

[hēnk]

I think it's pretty simple, you authenticate with FB from within Spotify and you'll have to allow Spotify access to your FB account. When you open up account settings from the dropdown menu in the upper right corner and then select "Apps" in the left column, you can delete Spotify. When you've done that, the accounts are unlinked again.

[pcoventry76]

You can also choose " disconnect from facebook" from within said options. I have a username and password but I also don't have facebook so I don't have that problem.

I wish there was a ay for it to stop saying " failed to enable Spotify social" all the time. I click to get rid and it just comes back in a few seconds. 

[Stupify]

The problem is that people keep saying in this forum that they've been linked with an incorrect Facebook account and they need to fix it. Support needs to tell them about the disconnect button in preferences, which means they definitely didn't click on "Connect to Facebook" on preferences in the first place.

Basically, Spotify seems to be connecting to Facebook whenever it wants and outside the user's consent and I want to know what I need to avoid doing so this never happens to me.

[hēnk]

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@Stupify wrote:

Basically, Spotify seems to be connecting to Facebook whenever it wants and outside the user's consent and I want to know what I need to avoid doing so this never happens to me.

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Don't use FB. It's never happened to me so I think this works. If someone wants to use FB on your computer just nuke your history/cookies, etc afterwards. Or open a different browser and let them use that, then nuke its profile. That way FB won't link your browsing activity with someones account. For Spotify it won't matter because it uses its own internal browser (though this might not be the case on Windows, if it uses MSIE it might share the same profile).

[pcoventry76]

What im going to try is this.

Download all my songs to my PC as I have premium, and then ban Spotfiy from connecting to the net.  Should work fine as that's one of the main benefits of Premium"!

[hēnk]

You can simply enable offline mode.

It will require to be online periodically to verify your account status.

[pcoventry76]

Yes I believe that's once every 30 days.

I know that I can do that but this is to see if I can block the facebook access and still be allowed to enjoy the service. 

[MultipleGnat]

Spotify has access to the following Data:

Your email address

Your Birthday 

Your friends' online presence (This is how Spotify social needs to work I think).

If you don't want it to post anything on facebook then then go into Edit then Prefeneces and untick anything not wanted, Then go into your facebook Privacy settings and go into apps, then find spotify and click edit.

Where it says this app can also, remove the Post on your behalf, Then switch the anyhting that says freinds to Private (Only me) and then log out of Spotify and log back in, Now yes Spotify is still connected to facebook but it will not do anyhting but access basic info which is stated above.

Spotify has to have access to this info to work, If it does not have access to your email that means you would not be able to login (Note unless your are using an original spotify account).

Due to legal reasons it needs your birthday to restrict songs and apps that is for over 18s (Some music and apps may have a age limit on).

But atleast now it had less info then it did and it can't really do anyhting.

I don't know why you are required to join via facebook now, I think it's just easier for Spotify so there don't really have to manage all the account signups and etc.

But privacy is a big issue that needs sorting, I don't really care too much but I know others do, hopefully Spotify can find a way to sort this issue out soon.

Hope this helps.

Liam