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Make Private Session enabled indefinitely until manually disabled

I didn't have a problem with the 6 hour inactivity timer before, but recently a change was made where the 6 hour timer is ticking regardless of activity. It is incredibly annoying to be listening to music in the background, only to return to the app to get a notification of Private Session being disabled. It used to be where if I was listening to music or if I returned to the app and performed some action, the Private Session would persist. That is no longer the case. Please change it back at the very least, or give us the option to enable a Private Session indefinitely. I don't use Spotify as a social platform. I don't want others to see what I am listening to. I don't want any social feature. I just want to listen to music. If anything, Private Session should be split into 2 separate toggles. One for the social features and one for feeding the algorithm.

 

These sneaky little changes, like the other somewhat recent one of always navigation back to the home page on returning to the app after a certain amount of time to obviously get eyes on whatever is being promoted there, are completely unacceptable. At $20 a month, soon to be $22 a month, give me more control over how I use the app instead of forcing things on your paying customers. You're about to lose a 14+ year customer because of it.