What Is spotify.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on October 28, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Spotify (spotify.com) is a music streaming site. Spotify was founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify is known for audio streaming and podcasting.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to Spotify include Deezer, Last FM, SoundCloud, Genius, Songza, Pandora, Jango, and YouTube.

DESCRIPTION

The spotify.com homepage had no shortage of links to click on. Generally, the thumbnails were related to things that were popular today which is the method Spotify was using to increase the click-through rate as much as possible. For instance, popular radio, popular charts, popular albums, et cetera. Another method they used to increase engagement was a personalized experience once you have created an account. Once I logged into my account, I saw lists personalized to me personally based on the radio listening I had done previously via Google Home et cetera. There was also a search box at the top of the page that asked me in clear white letters what would I like to listen to. I typed some names into the search box and was generally impressed with the results; however, it wouldn’t let me play them without signing in first. Why does it want me to sign in? So it can use my account to collect and remember the information which it will then use for me in the future to yet again help increase my time on the site. I recommend being slightly less tactical in seduction and instead allowing people to listen to the music they search for since it was implied I would be able to search for and find it. Why would I want to find it but not listen to it? It seemed deceptive to me.

HISTORY

As of August 2023, spotify.com has 393.2 million monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates spotify.com was founded on November 8, 2006. The Internet Archive has saved spotify.com 329,930 times between November 8, 2006 and October 3, 2023.

Is spotify.com Safe?

Here, I analyzed spotify.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:

Sucuri says spotify.com has no issues.

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
  https://www.spotify.com/us/404javascript.js
  https://www.spotify.com/us/404testpage4525d2fdc/
• Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. Affected pages:
  https://www.spotify.com/us/404javascript.js
  https://www.spotify.com/us/404testpage4525d2fdc/

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VirusTotal says jizzoncam.com is clean.

URLVoid says jizzoncam.com passed all blocklist engines.

In conclusion, jizzoncam.com is safe. But it has security header issues. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: spotify.com