It’s a pain in the ass, but it’s not completely impossible. You won’t be able to keep things like your search history or any of the algorithmically-generated custom playlists that Spotify makes based on your listening history, but it’s possible to at least transfer your playlists to a new, separate account that only uses your email address to log in. If you don’t see an option in your account settings to “disconnect from Facebook,” that means you signed up using Facebook. Maybe you don’t remember if you signed up for Spotify with Facebook.

Read more: Hidden Features and Third Party Programs That Make Spotify Work for You Your only option is to open a new account and start over with your email address, instead. If you created your account with a Facebook login, “it’s not possible to disconnect,” according to Spotify’s help page on the topic. And if you’re in the #DeleteFacebook boat, or just want to disentangle the social network from your services, this becomes a real problem. If you deactivate your Facebook, but try to log in to your linked Spotify account, Facebook counts it as a login on its own platform-and reactivates for you.īut once Facebook and Spotify are connected, it becomes a herculean task to pry them apart.

The Facebook option is, convenience-wise, a lot more appealing: One click, no creating a password or filling out a registration form with your personal data. When you sign up for Spotify, you have the option-like many platforms these days-to register using your email address, or by linking your Facebook account as your login. Among other giants like Amazon and Netflix, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network gave Spotify access to read users’ private messages without their consent (it did this to allow users within Spotify to send and receive DMs within the app.) In this case, the impropriety may be a little overblown, but there are lots of reasons why you might want to use Spotify without logging into Facebook, namely that you don’t want a Facebook anymore. This week, the New York Times reported even more damning evidence that Facebook mishandled users’ data-and dragged a whole slew of the biggest tech companies in the world with it. Read more: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down

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