Безопасен ли pandora.com?

Pandora.com is a good web site that provides a good service and for free too. It's fun creating your own radio stations, custom tailored to your own musical tastes. You can (and should) like or dislike each song as they play. As a result the stations gets better and better as time goes by. You can create up to one-hundred unique stations on your Pandora account. I have encountered no pop-up, privacy or spamming issues thus far. However some of the songs that are played on my stations are just a little explicit. That's something parents might want to think about. That's why I only rated Pandora as "good" and not "excellent" on Child Safety. There are two subscription options with Pandora. The first is a free option where you can listen to up to one-hundred hours of music a month and you get the occasional commercial in between songs; I generally get one commercial every ten songs or so. The second is a pay option where you get no commercials, unlimited listening (as in no one-hundred hour per month limit) and a few other small perks. Honestly the free option suits me just fine. I can't imagine one-hundred hours of radio not being enough and the commercials are so few and far between that they're not really a bother. So I think that the free subscription option will work just fine for most people. However at a price of only $36.00 a year the pay subscription option is really not bad at all. Honestly either one is good. I like Pandora a lot. I introduced my mom to it and she really likes it too. So I highly recommend Pandora.com to others.

Don't get me wrong, this is a good site, and it is an EXCELLENT online radio that I listen to all the time, but there are some ordinary privacy concerns that need to be addressed. The site is full of trackers. (Even though they're all over the web, there's lots on this site.) Of course, in order to make money, some information about you is collected in order to provide relevant ads to you. This in many ways can be considered a service that you may want. Many people don't have a problem with this, but some people (like me) do. I resent that I do not have control over MY own personal information. Rather once that information is taken it is pretty much outside of my hands. The site also connects with Facebook, so Facebook can recognize you if it can identify your browser (eg. cookies), or if you have given Pandora your Facebook information, or if Facebook knows your Pandora account. Pandora may have a good privacy policy, but that does not necessarily include the trackers' privacy policy. to learn more about trackers do an internet search, look it up on Wikipedia, and consider downloading the add-ons "Do not Track" or "Ghostery" if you use Firefox as a browser. And for additional "paranoid" security try installing "request policy" and "noscript" for Firefox. PS: All though this undermines the way Pandora makes a lot of its money, you can easily block all of the ads with "Super Ad Block Plus" for Firefox. (Although its probably more ethical to disable the add-on when on Pandora.com if you do not pay for the music service.)

Wonderful site to listen to music you love and discover more! It offers you to make your own profile, make your own stations, tell it if you like or dislike a song it gives you so it can make better choices for you, and most importantly FREE MUSIC! :D Now, I do have to say ads do get a little annoying so I just click that mute button for a sec. ;) But it's worth it. Overall: Privacy 80/100, Child Safety 90/100, Vendor Reliability 80/100, Trustworthiness 90/100