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The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability

· · July 30, 2026, 3:52 p.m.

Summary

The author shares their experience of quitting Spotify's podcast platform due to chronic reliability issues that arose after the company's focus on AI, contrasting it with competitors that maintain better performance.

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