Spoitify launches itself on startup?!?!?!

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Running Monterey 12.7.1 on a MacBook Pro Retina 2015.

Spotify is launching itself on startup.  It is NOT set as a login item in system preferences.  Wow.  Has anyone heard of this before?  What to do (apart from uninstall Spotify)...?

Thanks All,

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    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,429moderator
    quourteous said:
    Running Monterey 12.7.1 on a MacBook Pro Retina 2015.

    Spotify is launching itself on startup.  It is NOT set as a login item in system preferences.  Wow.  Has anyone heard of this before?  What to do (apart from uninstall Spotify)...?

    Thanks All,
    There's a setting in Spotify preferences to turn off opening at startup but it's annoying they default to opening it. It's probably to boost their monthly active user counts to their shareholders. I think there's a launch agent or daemon file somewhere that makes it startup on login. It would be nice if Apple locked down the ability for apps to run persistently, at least have a system preference that lists all apps/agents/daemons that are forcibly relaunching so they can be removed from a consistent place. Launch agents and daemons are one of the most abused parts of the OS, especially for malware.
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