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Apple Pushing Promotional Content into Apple Music Radio Stations and Playlists

   Josh Centers

   Over at Macworld, Jason Snell laments that [1]Apple is now inserting
   promotional content into Apple-created radio stations and playlists.
   Play one of Apple's on-demand radio stations and you'll be subjected to
   ads for other Apple Music radio shows. You can skip them, but that
   shouldn't be necessary. On the playlist side, Apple is now featuring a
   particular artist each week, and it leads off with a short spoken-word
   interview with the artist. That's also easily skippable if you're
   starting the playlist from within Music, but less so if you're invoking
   it via Siri or have it on shuffle. Unfortunately, there's no way to
   filter out these ads and interview clips'at minimum, there should be a
   setting to eliminate such intrusions. Overall, however, it's troubling
   direction for Apple to be taking a service that has previously focused
   on the music.

   [2]Read original article

References

   1. https://www.macworld.com/article/707588/apple-music-ads-stations-interviews-playlists.html
   2. https://www.macworld.com/article/707588/apple-music-ads-stations-interviews-playlists.html

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