Zero for me. No Netflix or anything here, I’m not into subscription based services.
But if you do have subscription based services, what might be the better ones out there?
For my own personal use, I pay one domain at about 12$/year.
Then there’s stuff my job pays.
I used to have Spotify but they kept increasing the price and the app was so bloated and frustrating to use just trying to listen to my local music. Ripped all the songs with zotify and now I use musicolet as my player
My only 2 online paid services are Hulu (love watching Bob’s burgers) and ring for a security camera I was gifted when I purchased my home. 25$ a month covers both!
Bob’s burgers is one our gotos to put on random when we can’t decide what to watch
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VPN, Spotify, 2 video services.
Tailscale mesh networking / vpn, mullvad vpn, tuta email.
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Paid media I get from the high seas and advert free with ublock
VPN, Usenet indexer and server subscriptions, plus youtube premium for the music service.
12 € per year for my email provider.
I rather donate for software projects that I find useful for me. I donate towards the fediverse foundation for covering server costs for my home instance, and (irregularly) for open source software that I use myself, like VLC player or LocalSend. This time I wanted to donate to FreeTube, because I used it very often in the past year, but unfortunately they only recieve Bitcoins. I don’t have a wallet, nor want to create one just for this.
I very recently started supporting the dude who does fossify and the dude who does the AI Horde / db0 (the latter of which I made my mental health skills building comm on). I’m trying to support more free stuff these days.
VPN, Spotify. Spotify seems justified due to the ability to find new music.
You get discover weekly playlists for free
VPN
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.
- Spotify
- domain name
- Rapidgator account
VPN and IPTV.
For everything else, there’s torrents.
90s kids see the reference here immediately.





