Ask Lemmy

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 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 pay a total of $6/month for an indexer an usenet service, and $8 for a VPN. all other media, including games, I get through that.

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.

I guess I pay for web hosting and domains, but that's it.

Technically Plex is a paid service (that I wouldn’t recommend) but I have had a lifetime pass for over a decade so.. if that doesn’t count, zero.

NextDNS, Kagi, domain registration.

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

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.

Just Proton and Qobuz, really love them

Spotify for my partner. Anyone know any good alternatives for those who like listening to a constant stream of new music?

I pay for several domains, as well as mailbox.org for email. Aside from that, nothing.

PBS streaming, VPN, Fastmail

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. 👍

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.

Mullvad

Debrid

Spotify

Mailbox.org

DSA

2x Whatever MMO we're playing

Domain name, VPN, YT Premium, Humble Bundle, Discord Nitro, cloud storage.

~3 including my VPN

iCloud, Spotify family, Bitwarden password manager

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.

Criterion channel, and proton VPN+email

VPN and IPTV.

For everything else, there's torrents.

DNS and email hosting.

Mullvad VPN and Proton Mail Plus (mainly just to use my Proton account on Thunderbird)

Domain, website hosting, VPN. I share a Netflix bill with family. I think that's all

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.