Well, I pay for my VPN...
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I pay for the domain name I host my jellyfin on. Other than that, nothing.
Nord and Pandora. I watch Tubi, Pluto, and Roku for free usually.
I only pay for proton and my domain registration
Domain, website hosting, VPN. I share a Netflix bill with family. I think that's all
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A VPN
YouTube Premium, plus a member of the Internet Today channel, because Ricky and Elliot deserve all the love they can get.
Nebula.
And a handful of simracing Patreons.
Currently subscribed to Xbox game pass premium, Amazon Prime, Spotify and PBS streaming. I would love to get rid of Prime but I really do save money on shipping and it's the only way I can get some of my specialty foods (severe food allergies). PBS streaming is the best deal at the moment and I'm really happy with it.
Zero rn, but might be getting Amazon Prime soon.
VPN, Qobuz, Tutamail
Online diary / notes for clinical records Web hosting & domain names Professional Membership body and directory Listings Email services
That's about it. Just business stuff. No Spotify, Netflix, or Prime.
One; Humble Monthly. I've had it active for a few years, now I have too many games.
I have no other Web-based subscriptions.
Recently subscribed to Libro.fm as they seem to have a responsible business model and help me to support authors and bookstores I like even though I can't read many physical books these days. No complaints so far but I'll probably unsubscribe once I've gotten through the limited amount of audiobooks I'm interested in.
Currently it's only for protonvpn I haven't bought into any of their other services ( besides using their email service and rarely using their online storage to transfer files ) since I don't feel comfortable putting all my eggs in their basket. I did have passwords in their password manager, but I switched to something else to try and avoid being entrenched in case of a possible future where they become European g••gle.
Otherwise, not currently. Would, if I could, support NeoCities but can't. I don't know whether that's quite subscription or something similar but not the same, though.
I feel like dollar amount is a more important metric than "number of services."
Proton vpn
Google storage (although I do those shitty surveys which pays for the subscription)
Netflix
Prime.
Spotify - I'm on someone else's family plan
Disney plus comes free with my mobile phone subscription
VPN, Spotify, 2 video services.
- Spotify
- domain name
- Rapidgator account
4 domain names. .net x1 .us x2 .org x1
Hosting which runs about 250 per year
SiriusXM music for one vehicle.
Windscribe VPN - lifetime member one time payment. Got it in 2018, no longer available. They have end points all over and it works great.
Everything else is self hosted.
VPN
VPN, Spotify. Spotify seems justified due to the ability to find new music.
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VPN, Usenet indexer and server subscriptions, plus youtube premium for the music service.
For my own personal use, I pay one domain at about 12$/year.
Then there's stuff my job pays.
One. Usenet access.
I have a lifetime subscription to an NZB indexing site I paid for many years ago, that was well worth the money. You never know if they'll stick around, though.
(I refuse to name names, because the minute you say what service you use, someone tells you to try something else, or how dumb you are for using that site, when this other site... blah, blah, blah.)
I have a lifetime subscription to Plex, that I got many years ago, when Plex was good. I haven't used Plex in over five years.
Until recently, I was getting Netflix through T-Mobile. It was "free" when I signed up, but then they started passing on the price increases. I dropped it because I so rarely used it.
Despite our complete homelab setup my wife still pays for a few streaming services. Couldn't be more than $45. Still to much. Have you guys heard Linux unplugged's IPTV episode they just published? Shit is wild.
Apparently theres is some Lemmy x Dropout overlap but there is no community exist here currently.
My subscription:
Dropout.
Various domain, mostly 10$ a year.
Purely mail. For well, email.
Kagi. Search engine.
Mangaplus. For weekly Shueisha manga.
Planning to get backblaze for backup.
I pay like 10/year for my domain name.
I also have Spotify (I know it's a shit service but I don't have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).
I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.
so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.
I pay for Amazon Prime and Sky Showtime (I think it's the continental European version of Paramount+ and Peacock combined). I pay for the first one because of the shipping and I'm still thinking of canceling it; the second one because they haven't said anything about sharing an account yet, and doing so is frankly cheap.