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I have Spotify premium but I'm not sure I can count it because they haven't charged me anything in over 6 years. Only reason I haven't canceled; I already ain't giving them any money 🤷‍♂️

Anna's Archive, VPN, Search Engine, Email Host, Server Hosting, I also do automated scheduled donations to FOSS and Fediverse projects if that counts.

I'd much rather pay for a service that doesn't log or share my data with advertisers than use a free service which treats me as a product to sell to advertisers. Sometimes that means self hosting and sometimes self hosting is cheaper or easier to scale or do offsite, even if simply collocating.

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 have a bunch but I don't think I'd recommend any of them, necessarily. Mostly they are familiar names and you either want them or don't. I do pay for Bit Warden. And I would like to anti-recommend Nord VPN for shitty practices. I donate monthly to my Lemmy server.

That's about it.

Dropout, mainly for dimension 20.

The only one I pay for is Dropout.

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.

Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.

VPN and domains

Mullvad

PBS, iCloud+, Sunbeam because I like its UV tracking capabilities, and Transit because I use it a ton (nearly 1,800 miles on transit with it last year).

PBS is actually the most expensive one at $5/month, but if I’ve got two pennies to rub together one of them is going to PBS.

I'm a coomer so I use patreon for some creators for a total of 10€ a month

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.

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.

Zero. I don't even pay for my internet service, it is paid by my employer.

None, and planning on keeping it that way

Kagi, domain registration, RadarOmega (really good weather radar), Zenarmor (for my router running opnsense), SaucePlus, Tuta, Mailbox.org, SimpleFin (for self hosted budget using real time data with Actual), Backblaze B2. I think 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. 😜

One VPS on Hetzner. Storage Share (managed Nextcloud), again on Hetzner. Sometimes Mullvad VPN if I need it for a month, otherwise IVPN if needed for a week. I host my own media like films, shows, music using Jellyfin and photos using Immich. I pay for email, I use mailbox.org. I own a lot of domains. That's it, I think.

I pay for webhosting monthly and domain registration pentannually for my personal and professional websites.

At times when I'm doing a lot of webdev, I pay for an online IDE with some sandboxing. It's like $2/month, I don't remember the name right now.

Just one. A vpn

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

proton and bitwarden

might be open replacing proton with a different vpn and separate mail service but i dont really see the need

• End to end encrypted cloud (for sharing private stuff), European.
• Not E2EE cloud, for public sharing and for general purpose email. European.
• Encrypted email. European.
• When I need to use one, a VPN. European.
• Web hosting. European.
• Password manager, not European (but I'm slowly switching).

I used to also pay for Kagi (best search engine I've used) but I gave up on it... at least for now.

I'm subscribed to a few print newspapers and magazines, those also give me access to their digital versions at no extra cost but since I never read them online (there is not tracking when reading print, and I prefer it that way), I don't count those as online subscriptions.

I generally try to avoid subscriptions, but I do have:

• Proton VPN
• Dropbox
• Youtube premium (they're still charging the student rate years after I graduated, and I mainly watch on a Google tv dongle so it's hard to block ads)
• Dropout TV
• Final Fantasy 14

I also have a monthly donation set up for MaxFun, since I am a fan of MBMBaM and The Adventure Zone.

Currently Spotify but I'm looking for alternatives, deezer is looking promising for me.

Also DAZN because it's the only way for me to watch NHL games in the UK, I know I can watch streams live for free but most of the games I want to watch aren't on until 3AM which isn't practical and there isn't a reliable way to get games on demand without paying. I miss LazyMan!

Other than that, nothing. Can't stand the fractured streaming service market, if there was somewhere I could watch whatever I wanted for one fee (like how Netflix was at the beginning) that wasn't owned by Disney or Amazon, I'd consider it but currently the most convenient way for me to watch what I want is to torrent it.

• 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.

Technically Plex is a paid service (that I wouldn’t recommend) but I have had a lifetime pass for over a decade so.. if that doesn’t count, zero.