First world problems

Yep. After they started this story they are sucking deep

They were afraid to lose 4% of the audience in Russia and the favor of the Russian government (probably some grants,idk). Now they are afraid to lose those who think that it’s “the right thing to do”.

Btw, it’s not that hard for the Russian government to block every VPN extension like they did with Nord VPN and Surfshark VPN let alone ban Mozilla. This action will help no one and it’s yet another act of virtue signaling

If you constantly depressed then yes

Vitamin D deficiency starts to have some benefits

Donated

I don’t understand your point tbh.

They did choose to exit russian market because

1. Russian market is minor compared to western market, given the fact that russian market of Music streaming is dominated by Yandex Music.

2. There were not that many ways of legalizing income from Russian territory because of visa/mc ban and swift ban.

3. Political climate in Russia was and is quite harsh: bizarre regulations and employees as hostages just to name a few.

4. Twitter politics (shaming companies that do not exit russian market) was a minor factor I believe. Some western corps are there including the one where I used to work (USA). Also YouTube/google still bans content that authorities find inappropriate (e.g. how to escape draft)

Interesting, but won’t help me personally. The account was erased.

All other services were like: ok, we cannot process your payment due to the war. This one yielded a bizarre message about how I am complicit with Russian army’s atrocities in Ukraine and therefore they delete my account till the end of March 2022

Like okay, Spotify you made your political statement, but does it somehow affect the actual political situation? I admire some Russian piracy sites that replaced advertisements with cinematics from Bucha and links to volunteers that helped Ukrainians to move to Europe through Russia

That’s how I’d behave if I wanted to start this journey again

Spotify erased my precisely curated list because I’m Russian and this somehow helps to stop the war in Ukraine

WinXP was good

fixed

Sorry but does it mean that you cut your tubes?

Idk, we tweak the license agreement when introducing some experimental features

Do you also read license agreement?

I have to wonder, don’t the majority of Russians pretty much know that their government is full of shit?

Let me offer my perspective,as a Russian. People do not want to lose everything like they did in the 90s. Yes, everyone understands that the government is full of shit, but they believe in the belief (google it, an interesting concept) that it’s virtuous to support a government.

It’s like a classic trolley problem. Yes, you’d probably push that lever, but you know of consequences and you just purchased a car and your wife is pregnant. You are caught in this unending circle, you simply do not want to deal with it because it doesn’t affect you. But when it does affect you, it’s always the west: shock therapy of the 90s, current sanctions, debit card ban, visa bans, etc.

That’s the perspective for the after-Putin era. It won’t affect his reign

Even before conviction!

I guess it’s not that much different from Trump.

It looks completely different from my perspective. Vast majority of Putin’s supporters are quite passive and want to have tomorrow everything they have today. They do not organize into groups themselves, and they are not invested emotionally.

I’d say that war supporting Z-groups behave much more like Trump supporters. But don’t let yourself to be tricked here, they are 2 distinct groups with not complete intersection

FYI In the last elections he passively participated, he got 27% while Putin’s bitch got 51%.

And we know that in Russia, the second tour almost always ends up not in the favor of the ruling party.

Eli5. Isn’t it just microdosing amphetamine?