I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It's not much but I figure every bit helps
I donate whenever they remind me. I love that site
Your comment made me donate to them for the first time just now. Only $5 but it’s something, I guess.
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.
Yes, it shouldn't be needed
My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I'd much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.
Yeah and when you're using 200 different services and apps and pay for each and every one of them suddenly you have -$2K in your bank account each month, it's not sustainable
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.
What I pay for:
What I "pay" for (through donations, if that counts):
I don't really subscribe to much, but I'm definitely looking to expand the latter list, so I'll probably start donating to the maintainers of ad blocker filter lists and seek out more organizations fighting the good fight.
Oh shit I forgot, Mullvad is such a given that I didn't even consider it a paid service, it's more like a utility bill for me, like electricity or broadband access.
I cannot overstate how legit they are, if there is one company on the planet I trust like my family it's them. Don't ask how I know, but I have first hand information the lengths they go to to protect their customers. It's run by Swedish 80's OG hackers who have NO need for the money, they're involved in other projects and have fuck you money, this is an idealist run outfit and they are legit as a MOTHERfuk. Trust that. They are on OUR side, they are TRON as far as I'm concerned, they fight for the user!
Nebula. There are only a handful of creators on there that I watch regularly, but even then, it's worth it for the price.
Kagi Search, it's such a small thing but it radically de-sloppifies your browsing experience
PBS Passport for $5/month is so worth it.
Right now the only thing I have a subscription for, as a college student fortunate enough to be living at home, is Proton. Don't like the whole Lumo AI thing and don't really trust they ain't scraping all my data for it, but I still have months before my subscription ends.
The VPN is nice enough and the attached email is kinda cool, I guess. Definitely been making use of both, so no complaints for now.
donations to soma.fm, listener supported free music streaming/internet radio out of San Francisco
My wife finally got me to give up my 20 year old tshirt I had from them. It was more hole than shirt. I should order another.
Hetzner VPS and their Storage Box, that is, managed Nextcloud instance.
Mailbox.org email service.
Bit warden & Nabu Casa. Both great & they support really good OS projects
is there an online service that eliminates capitalism?
Services only or one time purchase apps too?
Apple One Premier bundle and YouTube Premium are the two subscriptions I deem essential in my life. I wouldn’t say I shill for them, but I definitely do think they’re essential for me.
Apple One Premier has:
Apple TV (I use a lot)
Apple Music (I use a lot)
Apple Fitness+ (I use moderately)
Apple News+ (I use a lot)
Apple Arcade (I use moderately)
2TB of iCloud Storage (I use a lot)
Optional Peacock reduced subscription fee (I don’t use)
All of it is sharable with 5-6 Apple family members too.
Proton - the whole suite. I use it all.
crabshack.ai - an easier, better version of openclaw/ personal ai agent.
Youtube red, not only for the removal of ads but because it pays the youtubers I watch way more then ads do.
Dr demento show. For 15.00 a month you get new and all old episodes.
This man has earned my money for all the years of entertainment and laughs he has provided.
Star trekkin across the universe!
my personal economy is hanging by a thread so no expenses that are not strictly necessary.
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.
I used privacy.com for years happily until one day they said they would freeze my account if I didn't provide a lot of personal info. I let them keep it.
It used to be free, they made their money from CC surcharges. You have to pay now?
No they still do a free version. I paid to upgrade so I can use the cards in my Apple Wallet and get a few other features.
Joplin cloud. I use the shit out of it and it's a great project.
Currently, Mullvadvpn.
I've paid for Proton Unlimited but I'm letting that expire and moving to alternatives.
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