Ask Lemmy

iCloud, Spotify family, Bitwarden password manager

Criterion channel, and proton VPN+email

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 🤷‍♂️

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

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.

I split a YouTube sub with my ex for my daughter. I use it for music anyway. Other than that I paid for Netflix last summer and canceled. I paid for a year of crunchyroll but I won’t renew it. TBH I never subscribe I just buy one service for like 6 months or a year and move on.

Dropout, mainly for dimension 20.

Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

For my own personal use, I pay one domain at about 12$/year.

Then there's stuff my job pays.

VPN, Spotify, 2 video services.

Tailscale mesh networking / vpn, mullvad vpn, tuta email.

3

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.

Mullvad

Debrid

Spotify

Mailbox.org

DSA

2x Whatever MMO we're playing

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.

VPN and domains

Zero. I don't even pay for my internet service, it is paid by my employer.

The only one I pay for is Dropout.

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 I’ve got two pennies to rub together one of them is going to PBS.

I'm a coomer so I use patreon for some creators for a total of 10€ a month

VPN and IPTV.

For everything else, there's torrents.

VPN, Spotify. Spotify seems justified due to the ability to find new music.

Does an annual payment for a domain name count? If so, it's about 13 euro a year I think.

VPN

I generally try to avoid subscriptions, but I do have:

• Proton VPN
• Dropbox
• Youtube premium (they're still charging the student rate years after I graduated, and I mainly watch on a Google tv dongle so it's hard to block ads)
• Dropout TV
• Final Fantasy 14

I also have a monthly donation set up for MaxFun, since I am a fan of MBMBaM and The Adventure Zone.