Originally posted by savoche
Not that those providing streamed music make it easy to stumble into new genres. They do their best to lock you into what you usually listen to. Sure, most of the time I'm happy with that - but I could wish they had a "surprise me" function to play something I didn't know existed.
But no, it's all about keeping you in your comfy bubble.
Always the bubble.
That is a strange consequence of the internet which allegedly makes almost anything accessible, but also enables monopolies to develop and be hard to break.
They conspire to hold us in the echo boxes of our prior favourite music, politics, etc etc.
And think, back in the days of B&M shops it was possible for specialist small shops to set up in places where there would be passing traffic of people going to the major shops. But what is the logical 'next door' to Amazon if you go shopping at Amazon and do not find what you want, what do you stumble across when you leave Amazon? Before search engines there were the people who registered slight typo errors of the names but now that does not work because people do not go to things by typing addresses.