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"On the 'Social' setting, you can: start a Private session choose whether to share what you listen to on Spotify with your followers choose whether to show your recently played artists on your public profile turn off messaging with other users...Excerpt from Spotify's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “On the 'Social' setting, you can: start a Private session choose whether to share what you listen to on Spotify with your followers choose whether to show your recently played artists on your public profile turn off messaging with other users...”
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