Publically listening to a private playlist still shows the playlist name in "Friend activity"

[amyyyzhang]

I'm on MacOS Big Sur on a 2018 Macbook Pro. I've noticed that in my Friend activity, it shows a friend listening to one of my private playlists (that I've sent them the link to). I asked a different friend to see if this was just something on my end, since I created the playlist, but it appeared for him as well. I looked at some previous questions about this topic, and it appears this shouldn't be the case, if previous solutions are to be believed — other friends/followers should see the artist's name, song name and the album name of that song, but not have access to the playlist itself. This seems to be a new issue with the most recent update. 

[Jeremy]

Hi there @amyyyzhang,

Thank you for your reply and feedback.

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