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Spotify’s terrible privacy settings just leaked Palmer Luckey’s bops and bangers

Elizabeth Lopatto

created: July 30, 2025, 9:16 p.m. | updated: July 31, 2025, 1:50 p.m.

“What I’d be way more interested in is what podcasts people like JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt etc are listening to! To change that, users need to go to the “Privacy and social” menu and toggle the “Public playlists” setting to private. That makes searching for people particularly easy; I was able to find a Spotify profile for an Adam Mosseri that listed the “Hang” playlist on the Panama Playlists website. I found two Palmer Luckey accounts; one, “Palmer Freeman Luckey,” contained the “Best Music Ever” playlist that the Panama Playlists identified. When The Verge staffers were reviewing our own privacy settings, one of my editors was stunned to discover I was following her.

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