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?
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.
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.
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 £2.99 per month.
Audible - no justification, just a subscription to a service we used.
Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.
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.
I’m a coomer so I use patreon for some creators for a total of 10€ a month
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.
Mullvad
Zero. I don’t even pay for my internet service, it is paid by my employer.
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.
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. 😜
- domain names
- e-mail hosting for those domains
- a virtual private server to host websites
- cloud storage for backups (in case the house burns down)
- seedbox
- claude code
That looks like a lot when I type it all out. I guess about $50/mo.
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 guess I pay for web hosting and domains, but that’s 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.
Spotify for my partner. Anyone know any good alternatives for those who like listening to a constant stream of new music?
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…
Criterion channel, and proton VPN+email
