Managing Third-Party Access Preventing Third-Party Apps From Accessing Your Private Data on Social Media Preventing Third-Party Apps from Accessing Your Private Data on Social Media If you're concerned about who has access to data on your various social media accounts, the good news is that it's very easy to revoke access. Read More to your accounts is an important part of staying safe online. You can give an app access to your data in good faith, but apps can change owners or adjust their permissions. You could quickly find yourself in a vulnerable position.
Interestingly, Spotify didn't offer a way to manage third-party access until fairly recently. You can only revoke the authorization by remembering which apps you have accessed and looking in their settings menu. It was impracticable.
Fortunately, that is no longer the case. It is now possible to revoke access to any app from your Spotify account.
First, navigate to Spotify.com, tap Sign in , and enter your credentials. Next, click on your username and select Account from the dropdown menu.
You will find yourself in your customer portal. You need to scroll down and select Applications From the panel on the left side of the screen.
Finally, find the app you want to disable and click the corresponding Revoke access button
Many users have used Spotify's chat boards to complain about the presence of an app called Lithium Community .
If you see Lithium Community in your own list of approved apps, don't worry . It is the web application that powers the Spotify community forums. If you scroll to the bottom of any Spotify forum page, you'll see a “Powered by Lithium” logo. You may not recognize the name, but Lithium software also powers forums at Skype, Best Buy, Sony, Verizon, and more.
You can revoke access, but it will appear again immediately the next time you write a forum post.
When was the last time you audited third-party apps on your Spotify account? If this is your first time doing this, did you find anything unusual?
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