Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?
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?
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I have Spotify premium but I'm not sure I can count it because they haven't charged me anything in over 6 years. Only reason I haven't canceled; I already ain't giving them any money ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Umm, winning!!!
What dark magic is this? ๐ค
IDK, but I hope they never notice.
We shall never speak of your blessings again.
Happy New Beer! ๐บ
For me I'm pretty sure it was that my credit card expired and I didn't update the expiry date (was never prompted to).
Damn I shouldn't have cancelled mine. They had stopped charging me for a few months for whatever reason and I actually didn't realize until I went to cancel. I didn't think I'd be able to get away with it for that long.
Anna's Archive, VPN, Search Engine, Email Host, Server Hosting, I also do automated scheduled donations to FOSS and Fediverse projects if that counts.
I'd much rather pay for a service that doesn't log or share my data with advertisers than use a free service which treats me as a product to sell to advertisers. Sometimes that means self hosting and sometimes self hosting is cheaper or easier to scale or do offsite, even if simply collocating.
Is Anna's Archive something people pay for?
I do, because I support them
Paying not only supports the archive but also allows you to download a ton of books at full speed
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.
Qobus looks interesting, thanks for sharing
When I was looking for Spotify alternatives, they were the ones who paid the artists the most, so I went with them.
And they are based in Europe.
Qobuz is good and has the best morals (as far as companies go) for music streaming. Only reason I opted out was because it doesn't have all the weird indie music I like to listen to but I'm hoping if I wait a year or two that will be better.
I have a bunch but I don't think I'd recommend any of them, necessarily. Mostly they are familiar names and you either want them or don't. I do pay for Bit Warden. And I would like to anti-recommend Nord VPN for shitty practices. I donate monthly to my Lemmy server.
That's about it.
Dropout, mainly for dimension 20.
Someone mentioned Dropout earlier, may I ask what that is/for?
Video streaming service with 100% original content. Itโs what remains of Collegehumor. The content is great, they donโt block password sharing, share profits with the cast and crew, and release a large amount of content for free on social media platforms.
Theyโre the only streaming service I am cool with paying for and even if youโre not a fan of all the content, they are absolutely worth the support IMO.
There is not a single thing, other than some episodes of dimension 20, I haven't watched. Including kingpin Katie!
Kinda wish that drag queen sleepover thing got more traction though. But Parlour room has become one of my favorite things of all time! Wish I had some IRL friends to play tt games with.
It's an improv comedy group that has their own streaming service, formerly known as CollegeHumor. Dropout has become fairly popular in the last couple years for a number of reasons, but basically they're funny and all-around decent folks.
I'm so jealous of you getting to experience game changer for the first time!
Don't Cry was a masterpiece.
That and the recent episode where they gave Jacob $50 grand, both bright a tear to my cold dead heart!
I still want more Play It By Ear.
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 ยฃ80 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
Idk how much expressVPN costs, but there are almost certainly cheaper options
Any suggestions? ExpressVPN works pretty well on all my devices, but I'm open to alternatives
Mullvad is a great VPN option
seconding mullvad, windscribe is what I personally use as its very cheap but mullvad is better
Man, they love people like you.
Meh, probably. I've also got a couple of Alexa's. Honestly couldn't give a fuck at this point.
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 ยฃ2.99 per month.
Audible - no justification, just a subscription to a service we used.
I don't think you need to justify your purchases to anyone.
And I think most of the answer is probably who frequent ![email protected] so if you're interested take a look at that
The only one I pay for is Dropout.
The right answer.
Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.
VPN and domains
Jesus
No, we don't subscribe to imaginary services around here.
The letter J wasn't even invented until the year 1524 Anno Domini, therefore Jesus never existed.
It is wild to see and hear Ionnes and Iesus pronounced out loud in languages that were around when Christianity was new.
Edit: Also, Yeshua, the Hebrew version.
Is it an expensive subscription? ;)
One of those "pay what you want models" but backed by peer pressure when they pass the collections basket around. Also, supposedly, you miss features if you go free-to-play, but all those features are end-game anyways as part of the afterlife package and supposedly you can use the confession DLC hack just before you reach end-game so the rest doesn't really matter.
I like your answer ;)
Look at Mr Moneybags over here! :)
PBS, iCloud+, Sunbeam because I like its UV tracking capabilities, and Transit because I use it a ton (nearly 1,800 miles on transit with it last year).
PBS is actually the most expensive one at $5/month, but if Iโve got two pennies to rub together one of them is going to PBS.
Transit is great, maybe see if your transit agency is willing to pay for it, mine does and that's why I started using it in the first place.
I had to screenshot after my 1am trip home from work on New Year's Day because it was the first and only time I'll ever be #1 on my local route, lol.
Mullvad
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.
I'm a coomer so I use patreon for some creators for a total of 10โฌ a month
Zero. I don't even pay for my internet service, it is paid by my employer.
One VPS (need to grow this one) $10/month
2 tiny websites $2/month
Bitwarden Family $3.33/month
A few domains $10/month
And M$ Family 365 because it's the easiest way for my elderly parents to backup their photos. $8.33/month
Oh and proton VPN I think it's $5/month
That's about it.
$38.66 a month.
None, and planning on keeping it that way
Those billionaires gotta get paid for allowing you to have any money at all!
Just one. A vpn
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. ๐
I generally try to avoid subscriptions, but I do have:
I also have a monthly donation set up for MaxFun, since I am a fan of MBMBaM and The Adventure Zone.
Fuck, you remind me I should erase and cancel my Dropbox..
Yeah, I only use it because proton drive keeps duplicating a bunch of my files with merge conflicts and lacks a Linux desktop client. I'm getting ready to spin up a nextcloud instance or similar but needed something in the meantime
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.
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 used to also pay for Kagi (best search engine I've used) but I gave up on it... at least for now.
I'm subscribed to a few print newspapers and magazines, those also give me access to their digital versions at no extra cost but since I never read them online (there is not tracking when reading print, and I prefer it that way), I don't count those as online subscriptions.
You described Kagi as the best, but also gave up on it. I am curious why? Is it just not worth the price?
Yes, it's worth its price (IA may quickly change that by rendering search engines less... central, one day) it's the best search engine I can think of. So, why giving up on it? Easy: I'd rather spend my money on non-US tech companies, at least for the time being:
One VPS on Hetzner. Storage Share (managed Nextcloud), again on Hetzner. Sometimes Mullvad VPN if I need it for a month, otherwise IVPN if needed for a week. I host my own media like films, shows, music using Jellyfin and photos using Immich. I pay for email, I use mailbox.org. I own a lot of domains. That's it, I think.
Kagi, domain registration, RadarOmega (really good weather radar), Zenarmor (for my router running opnsense), SaucePlus, Tuta, Mailbox.org, SimpleFin (for self hosted budget using real time data with Actual), Backblaze B2. I think that's about it.
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
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.
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
I guess I pay for web hosting and domains, but that's it.
Technically Plex is a paid service (that I wouldnโt recommend) but I have had a lifetime pass for over a decade so.. if that doesnโt count, zero.
Currently Spotify but I'm looking for alternatives, deezer is looking promising for me.
Also DAZN because it's the only way for me to watch NHL games in the UK, I know I can watch streams live for free but most of the games I want to watch aren't on until 3AM which isn't practical and there isn't a reliable way to get games on demand without paying. I miss LazyMan!
Other than that, nothing. Can't stand the fractured streaming service market, if there was somewhere I could watch whatever I wanted for one fee (like how Netflix was at the beginning) that wasn't owned by Disney or Amazon, I'd consider it but currently the most convenient way for me to watch what I want is to torrent it.
On that note. I'd recommend Qobuz instead.
Good catch, thanks
I paid 5 bucks to a service that ported all my Spotify to YouTube, then I downloaded them and now host it all on a jellyfin server. I'm a prolific music consumer, and even after getting every album for every single song I liked on Spotify, I can still fit it all on an SD card in my phone.
Seriously, going full pirate on this has been so life changing and stupidly easy.
Seems like quite a roundabout way to pay for fairly poor quality audio files, couldn't you just have torrented the files you wanted instead and got better audio at the same time?
Not all my music was being hosted on the bay and most every artist has a high quality studio album upload on their official Youtube page, so if was just easier to batch them out using yt-dl
That looks like a lot when I type it all out. I guess about $50/mo.
I very recently started supporting the dude who does fossify and the dude who does the AI Horde / db0 (the latter of which I made my mental health skills building comm on). I'm trying to support more free stuff these days.
The VPN came with the bank account, but I do pay for Spotify (I barely use it but my wife does). And that's pretty much it. ๐
Mullvad VPN and Proton Mail Plus (mainly just to use my Proton account on Thunderbird)
Does an annual payment for a domain name count? If so, it's about 13 euro a year I think.
Domain name, VPN, YT Premium, Humble Bundle, Discord Nitro, cloud storage.
VPN and IPTV.
For everything else, there's torrents.
90s kids see the reference here immediately.
I pay for a yearly crunchyroll (grandfathered due to funimation merger, if it goes up ill be ditching it). and a few twitch streamers and I do pay for youtube premium student edition (when this runs out I'll either ditch it or go to the cheaper plan that only does ad free as I don't really use much of the other features)
The twitch subs are mostly a "support my content creator" style system or else I would just get turbo.
NextDNS, Kagi, domain registration.
DNS and email hosting.
PBS streaming, VPN, Fastmail
The only subscription I pay is Netflix (the cheapest one). We watch it enough that is worth keeping around. I guess I technically also have web hosting and a domain name, but I pay those for a few years at a time.
Mullvad
Debrid
Spotify
Mailbox.org
DSA
2x Whatever MMO we're playing
Proton for email. Tidal for music, though I don't really support them or love their app so probably won't be with them for long. Sleep with me podcast, a necessary sleep aid and I just like to support the person.
I subscribe to a couple of different artists/comedians too but that's mostly because I can afford to and prefer to support people directly.
For streaming: Crave because Canada, and they just earned every penny I've ever given them with Heated Rivalry. Just cancelled Netflix, but my partner still pays for Disney though I'm trying to get him to cancel that too. I think those are our only two streaming services.
I'll be looking for a VPN this year so I can take to the seas again eventually but streaming from free websites is working well so far so I haven't worried about it too much.
Spotify for my partner. Anyone know any good alternatives for those who like listening to a constant stream of new music?
https://radio.garden/
https://worldradiomap.com/
https://worldradios.app/
That's fabulous - I bet it's cool to listen to radio from a foreign country.
Yeah, until you realize they also play your local stations..
Just Proton and Qobuz, really love them
~3 including my VPN
iCloud, Spotify family, Bitwarden password manager
Criterion channel, and proton VPN+email
Zero rn, but might be getting Amazon Prime soon.
I been battling with my wife about cancelling prime. If we didn't have a child on the way it would be a no brainer.
The overnight delivery is nice but more often than not it's actually two day shipping. Their delivery times have been so unreliable that I'm actually convinced they just blatantly lie to get you to buy a preferred product regardless of how long it will actually take to get it to you.
Evidently there are ads now for their programming. I didn't have prime for the streaming but it was the only source of classic Christmas movies this holiday, right up until they cut away mid sentence for 5 minutes of unskippable ads. I almost cancelled it right then.
Yea, would've canceled prime if not for the rapid delivery. I do notice that the delivery times have stretched out to 2 days.
can't comment on Prime video, since i don't use it much, but i don think the ads in a paid service is a pretty scummy thing to do.
The main driving force for me to cancel is mostly the way they treat their workers, but the sad thing is that it seems that dependency on amazon is gone up nowadays, with most malls/ stores closing (Fry's Electronics is one that I can name off the top of my head)
uBlock Origin is your friend
Despite our complete homelab setup my wife still pays for a few streaming services. Couldn't be more than $45. Still to much. Have you guys heard Linux unplugged's IPTV episode they just published? Shit is wild.
A VPN
YouTube Premium, plus a member of the Internet Today channel, because Ricky and Elliot deserve all the love they can get.
Nebula.
And a handful of simracing Patreons.
For my own personal use, I pay one domain at about 12$/year.
Then there's stuff my job pays.
One. Usenet access.
I have a lifetime subscription to an NZB indexing site I paid for many years ago, that was well worth the money. You never know if they'll stick around, though.
(I refuse to name names, because the minute you say what service you use, someone tells you to try something else, or how dumb you are for using that site, when this other site... blah, blah, blah.)
I have a lifetime subscription to Plex, that I got many years ago, when Plex was good. I haven't used Plex in over five years.
Until recently, I was getting Netflix through T-Mobile. It was "free" when I signed up, but then they started passing on the price increases. I dropped it because I so rarely used it.
Aww, sorry to see you leave so soon.
Happy New Beer! ๐บ
GoDaddy. AirVPN, Deezer, LibroFM.
People I should donate to in no particular order: Proxmox. Linux Mint. Homarr. Jellyfin. Jellyseerr. Audiobookshelf. Romm. Immich. Paperless. Mealie. Vikunja. Pihole. NginxProxyManager. Syncthing. Bitwarden. Joplin. Searxing. Hardcover. LibroFM Downloader. Radarr. Sonarr. LazyLibrarian. Bookshelf. Cleanuparr. Huntarr. Gluetun. Prowlarr. Qbittorrent. Bitmagnet. Whisparr. DosBox. Retroarch. Tailscale. DietPi. Dockge. Community-Scripts. All of Firebog's ticked lists. Firebog. NGO-sang's Tracker list. Lemmynsfw (I donated last year though). I wanna setup SelfBridge and a YT-dlp. I have a Tdarr set up and ready to turn on when I get to <1Tb
40+ services I use and don't pay for... LiberaPay when? I'm a fucking monster. ยฃ1pcm/service is prohibitively expensive for me right now. Do I donate ยฃ5 to one each month, then they're waiting 2 years for the next ยฃ5? Do I try ยฃ.5pcm/service? Then they're not all on LiberaPay, some don't want donations at all. Immich (for example) want me to buy the thing ยฃ100, I have 7 users so far. Do I follow immich and do 2 ยฃ100/year donations, so a 20 year cycle? Honestly, 2*ยฃ100 is probably the most comfortable, feels like an impact, not too mentally taxing to do, it's enough to be worth donating directly.
That's hoping that when I donate to BitMagnet (for example), they donate to their dependancies, like Postgress (for example). Else the number is probably hundreds.
Apparently theres is some Lemmy x Dropout overlap but there is no community exist here currently.
My subscription:
Dropout.
Various domain, mostly 10$ a year.
Purely mail. For well, email.
Kagi. Search engine.
Mangaplus. For weekly Shueisha manga.
Planning to get backblaze for backup.
I pay like 10/year for my domain name.
I also have Spotify (I know it's a shit service but I don't have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).
I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.
so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.
Tailscale mesh networking / vpn, mullvad vpn, tuta email.
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Paid media I get from the high seas and advert free with ublock
VPN, Usenet indexer and server subscriptions, plus youtube premium for the music service.
VPN
VPN, Spotify. Spotify seems justified due to the ability to find new music.
You get discover weekly playlists for free
4 domain names. .net x1 .us x2 .org x1
Hosting which runs about 250 per year
SiriusXM music for one vehicle.
Windscribe VPN - lifetime member one time payment. Got it in 2018, no longer available. They have end points all over and it works great.
Everything else is self hosted.
VPN, password manager, I think that's it?
Edit for reading comprehension: Mullvad, Dashlane. I'm sold on the former, open to ideas on the latter.
I prefer bitwarden but i pay to get their one time code feature
I find that KeePassXC works great for if you don't mind not being able to sync passwords that easily. You don't have to pay a subscription for it.
Huh? Password manager as a paid subscription service?
I just use the goop between my ears to remember my passwords.
My goop likes strong and varied passwords.
Write a story you will never forget about whatever service. Like 'when h is Y and won I; I would rather die than use google as a service.' = "1wouldratYerd1etYanusegoogleasaserv1ce."
I used to do that with Buying for bike shops where I had a bunch of accounts all over the place. I kept mental track of the starting key so that I knew my password rotation and history. I kept a hints book, but did not need it.
I could see that working. The great thing about password managers is that your codes are always intensely random and secure. The bad thing is that once you're into them, it would take several hours of work to make them all into something a human can memorise.
Me too.
Dihydrogen Monoxide + Sodium Ferrocyanide + Ferric Ammonium Sulfate = โ
I'm not even a fucking chemist LOL, nor is the answer to that question in any way related to my actual password, but I'll give you an upvote if you can figure out what color that makes...
Sounds fun, but you keep it. I have a kid to put to bed.
Take care, and have an upvote anyways.
It makes a deep Navy/Prussian Blue.
You must not be using very strong passwords, then... Or somehow only have a few accounts.
But given that every site out there requires an account to use these days that sounds dubious
I memorized ฯ to 50 decimal places and also the alphabet backwards at age 10. Neither are my passwords BTW, but yeah my passwords can be and indeed are cumbersome. But the harder it is to spell, the easier it is for me to remember, oddly enough.
Once upon a time my password was my Windows 98 product key, 25 otherwise random characters. Yes that password has long since been retired.
I used to have quite a facility for memorisation, but life got busy and I gave it up.
I guess my mind just can't help it, I find the more complex the character sequence, the easier it is for me to remember. It only took me 5 minutes to learn the alphabet backwards at age 10.
I've since found that I can memorize Microsoft 25 character product keys in like 30 seconds. I dunno, guess my memory banks just work differently than most.. ๐คท
I usually use randomly generated passwords of the maximal supported length (or the maximum 100). I would definitely forget even one of these. Password Manager has also great auto-fill feature for fast and simple login in browser or PC or phone apps, and automatically copies 2FA codes.
I don't trust password managers from the start, it feels like sticking your password on a post-it note on your screen and hoping nobody else sees it.
The only difference is waiting to see if hackers manage to hack your password manager, then they have all the keys...
Well, I pay for my VPN...
VPN, Spotify, 2 video services.
I pay for the domain name I host my jellyfin on. Other than that, nothing.
Proton vpn
Google storage (although I do those shitty surveys which pays for the subscription)
Netflix
Prime.
Spotify - I'm on someone else's family plan
Disney plus comes free with my mobile phone subscription
Currently it's only for protonvpn I haven't bought into any of their other services ( besides using their email service and rarely using their online storage to transfer files ) since I don't feel comfortable putting all my eggs in their basket. I did have passwords in their password manager, but I switched to something else to try and avoid being entrenched in case of a possible future where they become European gโขโขgle.
Otherwise, not currently. Would, if I could, support NeoCities but can't. I don't know whether that's quite subscription or something similar but not the same, though.
I feel like dollar amount is a more important metric than "number of services."
Nord and Pandora. I watch Tubi, Pluto, and Roku for free usually.
Recently subscribed to Libro.fm as they seem to have a responsible business model and help me to support authors and bookstores I like even though I can't read many physical books these days. No complaints so far but I'll probably unsubscribe once I've gotten through the limited amount of audiobooks I'm interested in.
Disney? Plus Hulu?
G-D you're part of the problem. Do you even realize that when Hulu launched, it was backed by Seth MacFarlane himself, who literally said Hulu from day one is literally designed to rot your brain...
You actually pay for that shit? ๐คฆ
Okay, you think I just pulled words out of my ass?
Well perhaps I spelled his last name incorrectly, but here ya go, this is the nonsense you're paying for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjnVE6ZXtU
did you create this post just to fuel your anger and lash out at people?
I only pay for proton and my domain registration
One; Humble Monthly. I've had it active for a few years, now I have too many games.
I have no other Web-based subscriptions.
Online diary / notes for clinical records Web hosting & domain names Professional Membership body and directory Listings Email services
That's about it. Just business stuff. No Spotify, Netflix, or Prime.
Domain, website hosting, VPN. I share a Netflix bill with family. I think that's all
Ohh and that cursed vimeo for creative content I'm not allowed to publicly display. Fuck that NDA
VPN, Qobuz, Tutamail
Currently subscribed to Xbox game pass premium, Amazon Prime, Spotify and PBS streaming. I would love to get rid of Prime but I really do save money on shipping and it's the only way I can get some of my specialty foods (severe food allergies). PBS streaming is the best deal at the moment and I'm really happy with it.
A hosted server, email, some Patreon and GitHub Sponsor. That's it.
Disney Plus, VPN, OneDrive, NextCloud (to eventually replace OneDrive). I use Spotify and Amazon Prime through a family account.
I pay for Amazon Prime and Sky Showtime (I think it's the continental European version of Paramount+ and Peacock combined). I pay for the first one because of the shipping and I'm still thinking of canceling it; the second one because they haven't said anything about sharing an account yet, and doing so is frankly cheap.
I'm kinda a normie. It'd be nice to have all my own stuff, but the thought of it all is enough of a road block for my AuDHD to not want to try. ๐คท
I have Spotify and HBO right now. My ex pays for the Hulu and Disney I sometimes bum off of, as well as Prime. They also paid for Netflix but I don't bother with that one.
Bite me
I reckon YT Premium is worth it, as problematic as Google is these days. I primarily watch YT videos for entertainment, mostly video essays and gaming news/let's plays, and after ditching Spotify, YT Music is a worthwhile addition.
Mostly the music part for me. Spotify deleted accounts of Russians, probably because it wanted us to overthrow Putin or something. A lot of us created new accounts after immigration, others were seeking alternatives. What can I say? Fuck Spotify and Fuck Putin
At this point, only Amazon prime, and only because of the free shipping and prime gaming free games (I just ignore video and music) Everything else is either adblock (YouTube) or questionably acquired (yarr!).
They (companies offering streaming services) had their chance and got greedy, so stopped paying for Netflix and Spotify years ago.
Not a subscription service, but I do buy PC games on Steam, and the occasional bit of physical media.
12 โฌ per year for my email provider.
I rather donate for software projects that I find useful for me. I donate towards the fediverse foundation for covering server costs for my home instance, and (irregularly) for open source software that I use myself, like VLC player or LocalSend. This time I wanted to donate to FreeTube, because I used it very often in the past year, but unfortunately they only recieve Bitcoins. I don't have a wallet, nor want to create one just for this.
My only 2 online paid services are Hulu (love watching Bob's burgers) and ring for a security camera I was gifted when I purchased my home. 25$ a month covers both!
Bob's burgers is one our gotos to put on random when we can't decide what to watch