Zero for me. No Netflix or anything here, I’m not into subscription based services.
But if you do have subscription based services, what might be the better ones out there?
Definitely gonna get normie-shamed by some of you guys, but we’ve got:
Spotify premium (family logins shared with sister and parents, so I’m sort of stuck with it)
Amazon Prime (all our photos are in their Unlimited photo storage - it just works and links in with our firestick seamlessly so that the fam can actually look back at the photos easily)
Express VPN (got it for privacy, stayed for the porn which is blocked in the UK)
Audible (forgot to cancel)
YouTube premium (have actually just cancelled now that I can use the Albanian VPN trick)
Starlink (hate Elon, but live rurally so no choice)
Finally, IPTV which is illegal and £80 a year but gives me everything.
Spotify: I switched my whole family to Tidal. It’s cheaper for a family of four, you can migrate your playlists and such, music quality is better, and they aren’t a shitty company. Plus one free month to try it before they bill you.
I had to find a different podcast app though. That was a pain.
Try YouTube Revanced if you’re on mobile, removes ads and gives you a bunch of nice features as a bonus
I love a forgot to cancel subscription . Solidarity ha
Man, they love people like you.
Out of curiosity, what would you recommend?
Spotify costs very little and is installed in 3 separate households, but if you’ve an alternative then I’d delighted to hear it.
Amazon prime photos just works. I’ve a Synology NAS that I was using with Plex but it’s clunky AF. We’ve got firesticks simply to access our IPTV, but it also means we can view those photos easily.
Starlink - there’s literally no alternative where I live.
YouTube - had premium, but through an Indian address so cost me £2.99 per month.
Audible - no justification, just a subscription to a service we used.
Meh, probably. I’ve also got a couple of Alexa’s. Honestly couldn’t give a fuck at this point.
Domain names and webhosting, the Proton suite, Ente (photos), and Qobuz (music). Basically all the stuff that lets me get away from companies like Google and have some modicum of privacy.
Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.
Mullvad
VPN and domains
I’m a coomer so I use patreon for some creators for a total of 10€ a month
Zero. I don’t even pay for my internet service, it is paid by my employer.
Hmm. I pay for letterboxd pro because I like stats and watch a ton of movies. I pay a yearly fee to porkbun for my domain name. I pay Kagi for search because it’s so much better than the free alternatives. I pay a couple usenet providers, and a few sponsorships on github, but that’s about it.
proton and bitwarden
might be open replacing proton with a different vpn and separate mail service but i dont really see the need
What does paid bitwarden get you? Or do you just do it to support?
They paywall one time codes ): but also so far they seem a good company to support and cheap + open source
I pay for webhosting monthly and domain registration pentannually for my personal and professional websites.
At times when I’m doing a lot of webdev, I pay for an online IDE with some sandboxing. It’s like $2/month, I don’t remember the name right now.
I pay for Spotify and a VPN. And even Spotify I’m currently questioning because they’ve started replacing some of my liked songs with totally different but similar seeming versions that might be AI generated.
I don’t need anything else.
Zero traditional.
Stremio, RD, great IPTV, and torrent ability.
Haven’t missed anything in over 15 years.Cost-wise (per annum, usd) iptv is <$80, RD + torbox $90, Stremio $10
Depends what counts as paid. I donate to wikipedia, Archive.org, lemmy.world and a forum I use daily. My wife has Netflix and Disney Plus. I could use her accounts, but I’m going through a phase of having no interest in streaming.
I have a webhosting account with a service some guy is running out of his garage. I agreed to pay for it, but he hasn’t charged me in fifteen years despite me mentioning it from time to time. Now I’m just enjoying commercial-level webhosting at no cost. No, I won’t tell you who my host is. Sorry. 😜
Just one. A vpn
I used to have Spotify but they kept increasing the price and the app was so bloated and frustrating to use just trying to listen to my local music. Ripped all the songs with zotify and now I use musicolet as my player
