{"id":68840,"date":"2022-04-22T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=68840"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:58:03","slug":"how-to-delete-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete your Spotify account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to remove yourself from the internet | #AskFirefox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZBYwK4kvIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2022-01-30\/spotify-joe-rogan-covid-neil-young-list-of-artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">follow in Neil Young\u2019s footsteps<\/a> or are already streaming music and podcasts through another service, deleting your stagnant Spotify account is a good idea. If you have a subscription, you\u2019ll need to cancel that first. Once you\u2019re ready, here\u2019s how to delete your Spotify account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>In your web browser, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.spotify.com\/close-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/support.spotify.com\/close-account\/<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow the prompts in a five-step confirmation process. It will conclude with an email with a link to close your account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.spotify.com\/us\/article\/close-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>More information from Spotify<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts \u2014 and forgetting about them can pose a security risk. You\u2019ll be off to a good start with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-instagram-facebook-online-accounts\/\">our one-stop shop for deleting online accounts<\/a>, but it\u2019s far from exhaustive. So here\u2019s a bonus tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for Firefox Monitor.<\/a> It alerts you when your data shows up in any breaches, including on websites that you\u2019ve forgotten giving your information to. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you want to follow in Neil Young\u2019s footsteps or are already streaming music and podcasts through another service, deleting your stagnant Spotify account is a good idea. If you have a subscription, you\u2019ll need to cancel that first. Once you\u2019re ready, here\u2019s how to delete your Spotify account. More information from Spotify With our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":68852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461998],"tags":[],"coauthors":[464117],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to delete your Spotify account<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whether you want to follow in Neil Young\u2019s footsteps or are already streaming music through another service, deleting your stagnant account is a good idea.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-spotify\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" 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