Aaaaahhhhhhh!!!! I forgot my Pandora password! Luckily I had my cookie cached on another PC so I was able to change it, whew!
It was then that I realized I only had 13 hours left of listening time this month...
What? When? How?.....This was news to me so I dug around and found that in order to save itself Pandora inked a deal to lower the royalties to a more manageable level with the goal to be profitable by the end of NEXT year. I knew they were in trouble and I had heard late last year they were supposedly shutting it down, yet the hits kept coming and I thought nothing more of it.
If you listen to Pandora a lot you will have noticed that more and more ads have been coming through. Aside from the audio commercials they have ads that are embedded in their player thus averting the pop-up/ad blockers [ clever :-) ].
I was cool with that. It wasn't enough to get me close to thinking about subscribing to Pandora but now the 40 hour time limit that ..."will only impact about 10% of users" - that's me - has me thinking about a subscription. If I do run out of time I'll be able to get the rest of the month for $0.99 which is reasonable.
If you want more details about Pandora and the deal with the devil they had to make you can find it here.
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