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Kagi.com - excellent search engine. Yes, it shouldn’t be needed, but in this day and age it clearly is. Excellent slop filter, and it let’s you downrank and uprank certain sites in your search results. And I just found out you can see the most popular sites for each category, so it’s fast and easy to see which sites probably are and aren’t worth having in your results at all. It makes internet search feel like it did 20 years ago.
Namecheap.com - It’s where I have my domain names. Mostly because they aren’t godaddy.
EDIT: Forgot to mention hetzner.
Same. Love Kagi. Tried going without for a while, and the difference was stark. Re-upped, and all is now right with my search world.
Names heap also offer to hide your domain owner details from the public for fred
The only streaming service I won’t pirate.
YouTube Premium. No ads and the creators I watch get paid more.
Yes, I’m aware of all the apps out there that give you the Premium perks without actually paying for it. Here’s the thing: the VAST majority of my watching is done on my TV via an Apple TV and I really CBA to go through all the hoops to make any of those apps work with my setup.
I don’t watch any other streaming services and I don’t watch cable / network TV. I’m okay paying for Premium to get the best experience.
I pay for that too but I wouldn’t say I’m HAPPY about paying for it. Because I remember when YouTube used to be free and had no ads.
They were not profitable though, you can only do that for so long before you fold and then no one gets anything.
I don’t like it, but YouTube family is by far the most bang for buck for our family in hours watched vs price.
And not having to watch any shitty ass ads on any YouTube client wherever I log in is amazing.
Privacy.com. I pay 10 bucks a month and never have to expose my debit or credit card numbers, I just use virtual ones. Plus, I get about $10 cash back each month, so really, it pays for itself.
bitwarden, wikipedia
also, not really paying for patreon, but I’m using it to pay DJPeachCobbler for his amazing videos on history
PBS Passport for $5/month is so worth it.
Proton - the whole suite. I use it all.
crabshack.ai - an easier, better version of openclaw/ personal ai agent.
- Tidal for music
- Tuta for e-mail
- SimpleLogin for mail aliases
- Mullvad for VPN
I spent a few minutes on going through my “invoices” directory in my mail, but I couldn’t find anything else. These four are all my online subscriptions. Everything else is IRL (water, electricity, rent, etc).
A domain.
Got any suggestions on hosting that’s not squarespace or otherwise ridiculously expensive? just need a simple site and some links… already own the domain
https://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is still a good resource for that. Geared toward discussion about servers rather than just hosting, still, it can help find a decent host. Some fly-by-nighters fly through there… by night, of course.
ty for the link
Not really. I self-host with a reverse proxy.
NextDNS, Kagi.
Chess.com. Its totally worth it for the game review which is the part of it I’d consider a “service”, but there’s other good stuff in there if you like to play.
ProBoxTV is a YouTube channel with boxing. 4 shows in the next month. Next one is in a few hours. It’s free but you can donate to their channel.
I knowww it’s shit on, and I hate that the price went up. But I can’t get rid of Spotify. I don’t love it, but it’s definitely the best music app I’ve used. I do love that it shows local concerts based on the music I listen to.
There’s a lot of stuff I wouldn’t mind sending money for, such as WMF, Internet Archives, AO3, and varying creators, and/or, of course, Lemmy, but as I don’t like using credit cards and online payments, I’m hindered.
I wonder if there’s some card (preferably paper instead of plastic) that I could buy at the store for $10, $20, or like, and use the number as payment. I’ve thought of sending cash by mail to the WMF, but I’m not sure if they would take it. I sent cash to Miraheze a few years ago, and they said they got it, but they don’t seem to have put it in their reports (I hope they used it for Miraheze).
I don’t know if this would solve your gripe with online payments, but most banks let’s you create a virtual cc that you can delete right after your payment.
But I think I still would have to give my name and info.
(Also, FWIW, I’m in Canada.)
I forgot the name, but someone in this thread mentioned an online service where you generate payment cards that allows you to pay for stuff with more privacy.
A few YouTubers seem to have P.O. boxes that I suppose I could use too.
There are those Visa cards that charge you like $4 every time you load money on them. Western Union does a similar thing too. It’s how people with bad credit/no ID get a card.
Joplin cloud. I use the shit out of it and it’s a great project.
Yeah I just wish they had more options to use à custom cloud
They do, I was using nextcloud for a long time but wanted to support the project directly. You can also use, local, pretty much if it can store files you can use it.
