Spotify Junk Data
Posted: November 11th, 2016, 5:49 pm
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/11/for-five-months-spotify-has-badly-abused-users-storage-drives/
Hmmm, I wonder how many other services are guilty of this. There was the alert about Chrome browser a while back doing a similar thing, seems like a good opportunity for someone to come up with a third party app that monitors and/or blocks this sort of thing.
For almost five months—possibly longer—the Spotify music streaming app has been assaulting users' storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans. Reports of tens or in some cases hundreds of gigabytes being written in an hour aren't uncommon, and occasionally the recorded amounts are measured in terabytes. The overload happens even when Spotify is idle and isn't storing any songs locally.
Hmmm, I wonder how many other services are guilty of this. There was the alert about Chrome browser a while back doing a similar thing, seems like a good opportunity for someone to come up with a third party app that monitors and/or blocks this sort of thing.