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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
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Turn off Spotify notifications on Facebook



You know how you find that your Facebook ticker has a whole lot of notifications from Spotify and each time one of your friends listen to a track it shows up in your sidebar ticker. If you're wondering how to turn off Spotify notifications on Facebook, please follow the instructions below.

How to Turn off, Stop or Disable Spotify notifications on Facebook.
1. Login to Facebook
2. Click on the Spotify notifications
3. Once the window pops out hover over the right-hand side of the window
4. When the down arrow appears click on it
5. From the options choose 'Hide all from Spotify'
6. You're done

If you do not want your Spotify notifications from showing up all over your friends Facebook ticker and you want to stop Spotify from posting to your Facebook ticker. This is what you would need to do.

1. When you login to Spotify, in the People Pane on the right-hand side of the screen.
2. Click the Cog icon.
3. Select Disable Posting to Facebook.

turn off Spotify notifications on Facebook

If you want to completely remove yourself from this whole circus you can click on File and then 'Disconnect from Facebook'. Following the above mentioned methods will help you stop Spotify from either broadcasting the songs you're listening to. It will also stop you from receiving Spotify updates in your sidebar.

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  1. ChrisSeptember 27, 2011 at 1:54 PM

    Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I get only the option to hide that one particular Spotify notification.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 5:05 AM

    I don't get any options at all as Spotify doesn't work in my country. So I get all the notifications and can't join in and can't switch it off!

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  3. DaveSeptember 28, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    Hi Chris, you are right when I wrote this post I took it for granted that you can turn off all third-party apps notifications from the Facebook sidebar. A good example would be games like Farmville and CityVille. Click on the game and turnoff all sidebar notifications. Apparently you cannot do it for Spotify. FB wants to get into the music scene and forcing us to get all the updates in the sidebar from Spotify.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 11:15 AM

    Great post... took me a minute to figure out what you meant.

    2. Click on *any* Spotify notification...

    Worked perfectly. Thank you... so annoying.

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  5. NunyaOctober 21, 2011 at 9:32 AM

    WHAT is SPOTIFY?????  All I see is the ticker on the right, and I want to make sure others can't see what I post on there, so how do I remove myself on there?  I don't see a "cog" icon either!

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