I have Spotify Premium Duo for son & I, Youtube Premium Family (I pay for son and I & got 4 of my friends to join so we split the cost), Voxa - audiobooks for son, NovelAI for son (some story writing tool I guess, to be honest I don’t really know what this one does exactly). No movie / TV show streaming services cause I have Filelist (torrents) and the world wide web.
Proton mail unlimited - prob gonna drop or downgrade when the sub is up, a couple of domains, mullvad, some patrons, and that’s it. Everything else I self host.
Right now The Atlantic, plus a national online newspaper here in Europe. Nothing else.
PSA: if you value your personal freedoms, then you need to at least consider paying for journalism. Democracy cannot survive without an independent media.
Can I up vote this more than once? Quality print journalism is absolutely vital and it will die without the support of its readers.
I find it so frustrating. The hate journalism gets is such a misdirection. This is a vital profession whose business model has been all but destroyed by the internet. The numbers of journalists have been in freefall for decades now. Their pay has never been lower, their jobs never less secure. Their desperate managers are pushing them to stop the bleeding by going for clicks and views. Predictably, they then get abused for being attention whores. Or, worse, part of some institutional conspiracy. And yet without professional journalists, bound by an ethics code, we’re absolutely gonna be lost in a sea of junk and fakery and manipulation. It’s going to be so much worse even than what it is already. And yet this could all be avoided if people were prepared to pay even a fraction of what they fork out to Netflix or Amazon. To be clear, I am not a journalist.
I have monthly recurring donations to several charities, I guess you could count those as subscriptions of a sort:
Subscription to rainforests: Coalition for Rainforest Nations (the operate globally with indigenous and local communities to do everything possible to protect rainforests and reforest areas)
Independent journalism subscription: ProPublica (no paywall investigative news organization that has really hard hitting reporting that holds corporations accountable)
Subscription to science-based political advocacy: Union of Concerned Scientists
Subscription to open information: Wikipedia
Subscriptions to a healthy community: Local food bank, urban green space advocates, and housing support orgs
I get YouTube Premium and YouTube music free with my Google Fi phone plan, so I don’t know if those count as subscriptions.
I actively subscribe to NordVPN to hide my piracy habits from my ISP.
I pirate pretty much everything else.Sling for live TV and Max for John Oliver, that’s pretty much it. Oh, and a Disney+ gift subscription for my sister. Comcast gave me a free subscription to Peacock, but frankly I never watched it and I’m not on Comcast anymore so I don’t know if it’s still active or not.
My WIFE might have a problem though… She does Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, AppleTV, Spotify, I think there might be others I’m not aware of.
Bitwarden Premium, Standard Notes and Pcloud lifetime. those helps me a lot.
None so far
Might get a vpn if I ever build a nas
Don’t buy it - build it (if it’s within your technical comfort zone). Self hosted VPNs are cheaper and you’re not entrusting your privacy to a third party (as much).
Ok that’s interesting, how can I build it? Cuz it sounds hard and possibly more expensive.😅
I suppose I have to somehow rent a server or rent physical rooms across my continent to put my servers (and buy internet connection for each location) to maintain a network. Plus set up the network. Isnt that too complicated? Is there any easier solution?😅
The easiest route is to buy a server from someone like digital ocean, set up a VPN daemon, register a cert with it (that’s the hardest technical part) then set up something like openVPN on your client machine and install a matching cert there.
- Apple One family plan (including iCloud+, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+) of which i essentially use the cloud storage, fitness lessons, music and streaming)
- Youtube Premium because i like to watch ad free on the phone or on the TV app
- a monthly scheduled wire transfer to the admin of my lemmy instance
- a yearly scheduled wire transfer to the admin of my mastodon instance
- a couple of patreon monthly donations
- a dedicated server in a data center to play minecraft with my nephew and do other linux things
None.
I don’t need anything they’re selling.
Yep, same here.
If there were any subscription I would get, it would be a VPN, to allow me access to basically all content for about the same monthly cost as any single subscription service.
Sure, it might take some more effort in terms of tinkering to get exactly the same functionality and ease of use, but uh I’m disabled and on a fixed income, I literally cannot afford to be spending something like half my monthly food budget on a medley of subscription services… and I have a lot of free time.
By the way, what does spotify give you that youtube music doesn’t?
My son says it sounds better and has a better search engine. Plus it has a good PC app.
Proton Unlimited, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hetzner Storage Box, Cloudflare Domain, Kagi, two Patreons, Spotify Family (but my mom pays for that)
I think that was all.
You guys pay for Tv and music subscriptions? Lol
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I was very tempted to find some other people and get deezer, to download music, but eventually I didnt
I’m trying to avoid most subscriptions. So I rent a small VServer and a VPS and run a little Proxmox server in my home. That is around 13€/month, including electricity for the Proxmox server. I could combine them and save a little bit of money, but currently I avoid the hassle of doing that.
But that gives me E-Mail, Nextcloud, offsite backup, a website, HomeAutomatization with HomeAssistant, a PlexServer to stream music and movies, paperless and more. So: Say no to expensive subscriptions, do it yourself.
Spotify, Dropout, Crunchyroll, and some patreons.
Anyone without Dropout should really check it out!
For anime my son uses this website: https://aniwatchtv.to/home. It has all the content you’d ever want in 1080p both subbed and dubbed.
Is that ad supported and does it allow downloading content for offline viewing? I usually watch shows when traveling and an offline mode is a must for me (and I have ADHD so I’ll literally murder any service that’s ad supported).
I’m not sure. I’m not that well versed. I don’t personally consume that content. But we use adblocker so the website has no ads.
Just a vpn
Would you consider yourself a highly technical person? And do you use your VPN for security or region lock evasion?
Yes but there is always something to learn and always someone who knows more. I use that particular VPN for appearing like I’m in a certain country and on another connection the server is always changing like the sea.
