Dropout, mainly for dimension 20.

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.

VPN and domains

I feel like dollar amount is a more important metric than "number of services."

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.

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.

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.

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. 😜

The only one I pay for is Dropout.

Fucking ZERO. Oh yeah.

• 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.

Mullvad

proton and bitwarden

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

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.

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.

VPN, Spotify. Spotify seems justified due to the ability to find new music.

VPN

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.

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 🤷‍♂️

• 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.

Spotify for my partner. Anyone know any good alternatives for those who like listening to a constant stream of new music?

• Claude code
• Hotzier
• YT premium

Bite me