Spotify can’t seem to shake its porn problem

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify formally prohibits sexually explicit material. In spite of that pornographic audio has long been a podcast problem. That’s been joined by a growing amount of explicit video, now that Spotify supports video podcasts. Time was, listening to a podcast meant downloading an audio recording to your iPod. These days, podcasts aren’t just available on pretty much every device under the sun, but they’re also no longer constrained to audio formats, with many popular creators having made the switch to video. And while we have access to more podcasts than ever, that shifting definition has also made it easier for non-podcast content to masquerade as such. That’s just what seems to be going on at Spotify right now, as users complain about pornographic and adult content invading their podcasts. A report last week from Bloomberg highlights the growing problem, where crudely packaged reuploads from Pornhub appear in Spotify’s top podcast charts al ... Read full article.