[All Platforms] Customize Start Screen

[user-removed]

This is not a new idea, but I haven't found any practical reply to it, so I think it needs to be repeated. I completely agree with Rennestein (screen capture below), we need to stop seeing irrelevant suggestions because it is annoying. Why can't it be possible to decide what we first see when we open Spotify on any device? (playlists, recently played, artists we're following, etc), and enjoy better our Spotify experience?
Please Spotify, let us have the home screen as we'd like. :)) Thank you!

[genius2k3]

Spotify, we believe "home screen displaying recently played podcast/artist " is equally important as other issues/requests.
I dont have problem with spotify displaying the podcast/artists I listened recently, But we definitely need an option to hide what we dont want to display.
Absolutely irate with the response since 2018!

[genius2k3]

And one more thing I i forgot to mention, every time we connect to Android auto or carplay, contents of spotify homescreen is publicly visible to all. which we are not comfortable with.

[Korven]

Yet again Spotify team doesnt give a **bleep** about what we want. Only what they think its trendy.

Customizing the dashboard/home screen is what I and many more want.

Podcasts? Cmon ... If i want podcast, then i get a podcast app. 

The dashboard is so user unfriendly and cluttered it is unusable. The suggestions is weird.

It is just horrible.

Let us customize the dashboard.

This idea is several years old. Time to fire it up.

[CollinTG]

On top of this, allow us to hide podcasts that we don't like. I keep getting recommendations for fox news' podcast, but I don't want it anywhere near my recommendations.

[Orthusaku]

I support this even if I can't vote

[experbia]

Coming in as requested from a thread requesting the option to remove podcast recommendations from the home screen: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Removing-podcast-recommendations-on-my-home-screen/td-p/480...

To see this marked "not right now" is disheartening. I made the mistake of using Spotify to listen to a podcast over a year ago now and now have to swipe past tons of this juvenile trash every time I open Spotify. Please let us dismiss the podcast garbage.

[densik]

At the very least we should be able to dismiss certain podcasts so they never show again or not shown again for a good long duration of time. This would help the algorithms figure out what we like too...no?

[kvidell]

This would make the homescreen at least something I spend more than two seconds looking at before I move off to something I actually care about.

[iamfrancisyo]

Please allow customization of start page! I just want to see new albums from artists I follow, and recently played. 

[Cemilia]

So you try out certain podcasts to find out you're not a fan but you're stuck with them forever on your homepage? Please give SOME customizability to this.