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I'm surprised at how many people are paying for YouTube premium. Just patch the YouTube app with revanced and you get better than YouTube premium for free
I primarily watch YouTube on my smart TV. There are pretty much no other options to avoid ads.
I use SmartTube on my Chromecast to watch YT without ads.
It even has Sponsorblock. built-in. It's the best Youtube experience on TV.
Spotify. It is the only subscription I have aside from my VPN, and mostly because their library is MASSIVE.
With how much I drive I'm constantly listening to the damn thing and being able to pick a genre and let it shuffle without thinking about it is 1000% worth the ten bucks a month to not be constantly picking songs, downloading them, sorting and transferring the library to my phone, maintaining storage space, etc....
Spotify only. I get an Amazon Prime voucher for 30 days from another telco whenever I subscribe to a data plan.
you don't even need to pay for that, as I found out recently. on desktop just use an adblocker and you're good, and on mobile use this https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager assuming you have an android phone
Netflix - my husband watches it a lot more than I ever did.
Amazon Prime - using a student discount (not a student lol - I emailed my uni's alumni association and asked to get one of their .edu email addresses, and used that to get the student rate for Prime).
Pandora - my husband listens to it all day long while he works, so to him it's worth it just paying for premium without ads
Get Peacock Premium for free from my ISP so that doesn't count.
Lol so many "pirates" in here
"piracy is a service issue" - if a product doesn't cost much and saves you time/effort then it can be worth paying a little versus essentially paying yourself less than minimum wage if it's hard to pirate (depends how valuable your time is though!)
Just Spotify at the moment. I might look into trying to stream from Netflix without streaming from Netflix sometime while using friends' passwords for other places. Once my currently roommate but soon to not be roommate (moving back in with parents soon) doesn't renew their Dropout subscription, I'd be willing to sign up for that only because I am willing to support the people over at CollegeHumor.
I don't pay for a fuck.
Just Spotify, they haven't ruined their service yet. I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s and think normal people want to transfer files around between devices.
I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.
who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40?
Gen X: still the forgotten generation.
Amazon prime. Cruncyroll.. The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack
Amazon Prime, though probably won't renew next year with how crappy shopping on Amazon has gotten. Don't want anything on Prime at all.
Currently have a Netflix sub that I plan to let expire.
Have a crunchyroll sub, every once and a while I sub to HiDive to a month to binge a series.
For music I'm subbed to Deezer.
I also have YouTube Premium and a sub to Floatplane.
I pay for the only streaming related site worth it's money and that's Real Debrid (or any of the equivalent alternatives). Stremio + Torrentio Addon to friends and family even if they don't know shit about technology cause it's so damn easy and fast.
I pay for youtube ( with a turkish card) I pay for spotify ( in a family tariff that makes it reasonable) I pay for Dropout cause they deliver me quality over quantity
- Amazon Prime because of free & faster deliveries
- Hotstar due to live cricket & oneFC events
- Spotify
Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.
None, selfhosted is the way.
Only for NFLX for the last decade or so, I would had cancelled that subscription years ago, but the guys I share my account with insist in keeping that Netflix account.
I have absolutely no idea why. I haven't watched Netflix in years myself. Well I pay 10 bucks a month for Netflix and the other guys are paying me 12 bucks a month, so this useless subscription costs me -2 bucks every month.
For me pirating is more convenient than watching the very same stuff on Netflix, especially since Netflix stopped working on some of my devices...
Curiosity Stream, Nebula, Tidal, Soundcloud, Spotify, Prime, and a Plex share basically.
Brw why you need both Spotify and tidal
I used to pay about $5 for Disney/Star+ for my family but it immediately became a waste, the content was crap and they barely used it.
So then I decided to buy an Android TV box thingy and sideload Stremio, way better than any subscription, they use it all the time. I like it because they see recommendations of shows and movies on their social media and immediately jump into Stremio.
My girlfriend pays Netflix but I still download from torrent even netflix contents because the quality is better and the player I use is way better too.
Hulu, Peacock both had blackfriday deals. Amazon Prime of course...but for some reason I still have Netflix, gotta ditch that shit.
In my country India, I pay for
Amazon Prime - ₹1500 per year Netflix - ₹200 per month (total is like ₹800 but 4 people share it).
i do use a couple streaming services, but i don't pay for any of them. i do pay for a vpn usually, but i am currently between such services. i think my partner pays for spotify.
Netflix DVD lol. Gotta feed the Plex server. Wife has Hulu though, mostly for background noise of long going shows. (NCIS, Buffy, Bob's burgers,etc)
Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), Plex, Max, Spotify, and Prime. Sometimes Apple TV. And Sling for NFL Red Zone in the fall
Spotify. It's the only paid streaming service I've ever used.
We'll see what YouTube is going to do with their war against adblockers but if it gets too inconvenient to use I'll probably get the premium. I get so much value from that site that I almost feel bad for using it for free.
None. I used to subscribe to quite a few services, but replaced all of them with a VPN subscription, some external disks and a bit of cloud storage.
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Apple Music: They didn't do anything wrong per se, but a recent price increase made me aware of the fact that I mostly listen to the same albums anyway, so I started building up my own music collection again
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Amazon Prime: Subscribed mostly for shipping, but over time Amazon had more and more junk and fake items on sale, the search no longer showed the items I was explicitly looking for, and at some point I just had enough.
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Netflix: I simply couldn't find good stuff to watch anymore
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DAZN: Got way too expensive here
None. It's stupid to have to pay monthly for access to someone else's content collection when I used to be able to buy content for life and build my own collection, so now I either stream things for free on unofficial sites or download them via unofficial sources. I'll still buy CDs and DVDs occasionally but streaming is bullshit and I'm not playing along.
Most of my media consumption is gaming. I'll happily pay for games, but not for subscription based games, cloud based games, or game library subscriptions like Gamepass. I want to keep what I buy. This "you will own nothing and be happy" future is a dreadful one.
Deezer so that I can use Deemix to download .flac from their library
Glad I'm not the only one.
Only Spotify, and that's on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.
... However, I do have a spotdl
script on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).
Real Debrid
I've tried them all, but I've settled on family subscriptions of Spotify and Youtube Premium, and an amazon prime account that is only used for shipping.
I guess technically I have Plex Pass, but I bought a lifetime pass 10 years ago.
I pay for Netflix, but only the ad-supported tier now. My wife uses it to discover new shows, then I download copies of it for my Plex media library.