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02-20-2018, 12:10 AM
Is someone hijacking your Spotify? Here's what I did when it happened to me.
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For years, I've had a bit of a digital pen pal.
His name is Kevin. He loves music, "Coffee Table Jazz (https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWVqfgj8NZEp1)" in particular. He owns an Amazon Echo, through which he listens to his lovely, soothing John Coltrane trumpet croons. He doesn't often listen during the day, but at night the tunes come alive — probably while he's also hand rolling linguine next to a glass of a full-bodied cabernet. (Or at least, that's what I imagined.)
SEE ALSO: Amazon may be building a new brain for Alexa (https://mashable.com/2018/02/12/amazon-echo-ai-chip/)
I know all of this because Kevin and and I have been linked at the hip (digitally) for years, all through a connected Spotify account. Every so often, while I'm listening to music on the app, it'll stop abruptly and I'll get a message that has become the bane of my existence: Now Playing on Kevin's Echo. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/19/spotify-account-random-device-hijack/)
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For years, I've had a bit of a digital pen pal.
His name is Kevin. He loves music, "Coffee Table Jazz (https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWVqfgj8NZEp1)" in particular. He owns an Amazon Echo, through which he listens to his lovely, soothing John Coltrane trumpet croons. He doesn't often listen during the day, but at night the tunes come alive — probably while he's also hand rolling linguine next to a glass of a full-bodied cabernet. (Or at least, that's what I imagined.)
SEE ALSO: Amazon may be building a new brain for Alexa (https://mashable.com/2018/02/12/amazon-echo-ai-chip/)
I know all of this because Kevin and and I have been linked at the hip (digitally) for years, all through a connected Spotify account. Every so often, while I'm listening to music on the app, it'll stop abruptly and I'll get a message that has become the bane of my existence: Now Playing on Kevin's Echo. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/19/spotify-account-random-device-hijack/)
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