From TechRadar · · 1m 30s
Spotify will stop counting your kid's music as yours
A new Spotify setting keeps a child's listening out of your recommendations and your Wrapped, and YouTube should copy it.
In brief
A new Spotify setting keeps a child's listening out of your recommendations and your Wrapped, and YouTube should copy it. If a kid uses your Spotify, turn on the new exclusion setting so your recommendations and Wrapped reflect what you actually listen to. Originally reported by TechRadar.
Your algorithm got hijacked
Hand your phone to a kid for one car ride and Spotify learns the wrong lesson. Nursery rhymes and cartoon themes start crowding out the music you actually chose.
One button fixes it
Spotify is adding a setting that blocks a child's listening from feeding your profile. The plays still happen, they just stop shaping what the app thinks you want.
Wrapped becomes honest again
The excluded listening is kept out of Wrapped too, so your year in review stops being topped by a song from a kids' show you never picked.
Built on managed accounts
The control sits alongside Spotify's managed accounts for kids, giving parents a proper place to separate a child's listening from their own.
Shared logins are normal
Households pass one account around between partners, kids and guests. Streaming services have mostly pretended that does not happen, and the taste profile pays for it.
Now YouTube's turn
YouTube has the same problem at a bigger scale, where a few kids' videos can bend your homepage for weeks. It needs the same escape hatch.
The one thing
If a kid uses your Spotify, turn on the new exclusion setting so your recommendations and Wrapped reflect what you actually listen to.
