Google vs Spotify
Based on our analysis, Spotify is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Spotify | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | D · 26/100 | C · 52/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (8) | Concern (38) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (42) | Concern (40) |
| What you can do | Mixed (58) | Mixed (68) |
| What they promise | Mixed (55) | Mixed (57) |
In plain English — Google
Google tracks almost everything you do online — every search, email, location, video, and website visit — across all their products and millions of third-party sites, then uses it to sell ads. They do give you unusually good tools to review and delete your data, but the defaults collect everything.
View full analysis →In plain English — Spotify
Spotify tracks everything you listen to, infers your interests from your behaviour, and feeds that data into a broad advertising machine — including third-party ad partners who send them data about you too. Controls are better than most, but your listening history is kept for the life of your account with no way to stop it.
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