You can record what you play from Spotify and you are already free to play the record again and again and again without the artist being paid.

Most people do not because they find it less convenient than paying 20bucks a month or whatever is the current price in 2025 but that doesn't change the reality.

For most people the appeal of Spotify is not the music itself but the playlists that are shared thanks to its ubiquity. This is the reason other services struggle to make a dent even if they have better quality, UI and algos.

Spotify started by disrupting the market using pirated music by the way so you are pretty much endorsing and encouraging piracy when "paying" your favorite artists through Spotify.

Stealing is not the correct word.

Isn't that the point of a new model anyway?

Yes. Sort of.

Just don’t confuse it with a random benchmark!

OTOH I don't know of a single person using biometrics even on windows laptop. Is it a popular feature?

I use biometrics pretty much everywhere they're available.

Currently use my laptop's fingerprint reader under Linux.

often?

Yes, in fact just today trying to use Dollar General's website to "clip a coupon". I scanned the QR code, found the coupon, tapped on it. I got a blank box (white box on gray background IIRC) in Firefox Focus, but a login screen on Vanadium.

And yesterday, same with a local club's website. Didn't even work in Firefox for Android, but worked in Vanadium. I got the website's custom loading sprinner, so that loaded and worked, but whatever was supposed to change the screen when everything else loaded, did not work.

I was thinking of adding links to zip bombs that would not be shown to the users unless they clicks in a one pixel area on the screen in the down/left corner but then I realized some people have browsers/extensions that preload links to show thumnails and I would totally zip bomb them.

How can they track differences if they have access to only one version?

This is a usual tactic for many online businesses to show a specially designed page for search spiders, so any major search engine has a way to verify if content is faked for them. Perhaps they use another spider that doesn't have an official UA or buy this service from a third party.

If you take a look at any website, even an unpopular one, you will see that there are hundreds of bots every day, and it's impossible to recognize what any of them is doing and why.

What if scrapers ips are millions of smartphones? If I was as evil as an AI scraper company that is not obeying robots.txt I would totally build/buy thousands of small games/apps for mobiles to use them as jumphosts to scape the web. This is probably happening already.

in my case my application does not use pagination, it uses infinite scroll, even if you had a million devices that use google chrome, they would all load page 1 and if that req/minute progressively decreaasing thing is implemented, once they start scrolling endlessly they would all hit the rate limits sooner or later, the thing is a human is not going to scroll down a 100 pages but a bot will. once this difference has been factored it, it wont matter how many unique devices they bring into the battle

Anyone is free to replace the cat girl with an actual cat or a vintage computer logo or whatnot anyway.

My issue is that it blocks away people using browsers without javascript.

How can one do this? Did not find it in the docs

It’s a feature in the paid version, or I guess you could recompile it if you didn’t want to pay (but my guess is if you want to change the logo you can probably pay).

The 3 images are in the repo, you can replace them and rebuild or point to other ones in the templates.

There are other ways to monetize. For instance small local AI models by default with option to pay to use faster/more efficient AI models remotely.