Doesn’t it actually require you to sign up to an account on some app hosting platform, rather than self host it?

Reddit explicitly allow bots; Spotify does not - that’s the difference.

Reddit explicitly allow bots; Spotify does not - that’s the difference.

That would be a completely different piece of software. It didn’t check their pitch or their tonality or their beat. It was barely an AI.

All it did was listened to the music.

So yes if he had written a completely different piece of software that did something completely different he could have pitched it completely differently and the outcome could have been completely different.

Why is this lengthy process preferable to using ublock on Firefox?

Yayyy unsecured connections for logins.

Avoid detracting from the hosts bandwidth quota.

Lacking a centralised server that even self-hosted instances must use to validate admins and will render your instance inaccessible if Plex’s server goes down again?

I’m fine with that.