What streaming services do you pay for?
What streaming services do you pay for?
Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
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Spotify. It is the only subscription I have aside from my VPN, and mostly because their library is MASSIVE.
With how much I drive I'm constantly listening to the damn thing and being able to pick a genre and let it shuffle without thinking about it is 1000% worth the ten bucks a month to not be constantly picking songs, downloading them, sorting and transferring the library to my phone, maintaining storage space, etc....
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Yeah, discovery was one of my main reasons for using it. Getting my own music just sounds like a huge undertaking considering how I listen on a whim.
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Have you tried ViMusic?
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I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That's all.
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I don't pay for a fuck.
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Spotify. It's the only paid streaming service I've ever used.
We'll see what YouTube is going to do with their war against adblockers but if it gets too inconvenient to use I'll probably get the premium. I get so much value from that site that I almost feel bad for using it for free.
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I only have YouTube Premium because it’s convenient to download and watch things on mobile devices. I torrent and use adblocker and yt-dlp on my PC, but it’s just easier to have for my phone so I can download things for work or whatever.
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Technically none, but my partner pays for Spotify and I'm on a shared YouTube Premium plan. I used to have 5-6 subscriptions and cut them off in January 2022. No regrets! Even buying an old machine second hand, an external storage, and a VPN still costs way less than my many subscriptions. It'll be hard to give up Spotify... Too convenient.
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Spotify xModManager for android with ublock manager on the desktop is a great way to cut the cord on spotify premium :)
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A good quality usenet server.
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I have been trying to get into Usenet. Which server and indexers are you using?
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Basically you want one primary usenet service, doesn’t really matter what (they all have pros and cons but for a normal users they’re basically the same), and another secondary service on a separate backbone (see https://whatsmyuse.net) to get good coverage without being hurt too hard by takedowns.
It’s kinda not cool in the usenet world to recommend specific services because there’s so much shilling going on. I’ll tell you what I use but please don’t take it as a specific recommendation. No affiliation with any of these.
For indexers I use nzb.su and drunkenslug. The former seems to have better coverage but the latter is faster. I hear nzbfinder is good too.
I use frugalusenet but only cos I got a deal that makes it $34/year. It comes with a free secondary block account on a second backbone so it’s kinda helpful in that way. But overall coverage isn’t as good as two well chosen providers. They often post good deals to Reddit/etc so keep your eyes open for a good one (Black Friday is a good time)
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Spotify like many others here. Just haven't had many issues with the program and it does what I want for a reasonable price.
Wanna give a big shout out to Nebula. It's meant to be a YouTube-esque site but solely for educational content. I found it via LegalEagle but it has a ton of documentaries and other educational content creators. I believe my subscription is $5/year or something like that. Just insanely cheap for really high quality content.
I have the Disney+/Hulu bundle. I love Disney movies and with all the franchises they own now I feel it's worthwhile. Hulu happens to have quite a few of my favorite shows and the bundle made it worthwhile to me.
Currently trying out YouTube premium and, I know this won't be a popular opinion, but I think it's worth it to me. I use a lot of YouTube and also chromecast it. While it's possible for me to get ad blocked YouTube for free on mobile and cast it to my TV it's... Cumbersome and unstable. I generally have the opinion that I don't mind paying for services I enjoy using so... For now, gonna stick with YouTube premium. Just so much less of a headache.
AmazonPrime but only for Amazon's services really, the few shows that are on Prime Video for free are a nice bonus though.
And currently I pay for Netflix and share it with my family but the very first second Netflix cracks down on that I'm dropping it and have told my family as such for years. Already started torrenting most shows I kept up with via Netflix in preparation.
The only other one I consider is HBO... But there just hasn't been enough of an allure thus far.
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If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.
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I'm surprised at how many people are paying for YouTube premium. Just patch the YouTube app with revanced and you get better than YouTube premium for free
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Only helps on mobile, though.
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Ublock origin
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I'm shocked by the amount of people that don't know of adblockers on desktop.
But then I remember, I have no life.
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Spotify only. I get an Amazon Prime voucher for 30 days from another telco whenever I subscribe to a data plan.
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you don't even need to pay for that, as I found out recently. on desktop just use an adblocker and you're good, and on mobile use this https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager assuming you have an android phone
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Thanks, but I'm on the Family Plan.
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Netflix - my husband watches it a lot more than I ever did.
Amazon Prime - using a student discount (not a student lol - I emailed my uni's alumni association and asked to get one of their .edu email addresses, and used that to get the student rate for Prime).
Pandora - my husband listens to it all day long while he works, so to him it's worth it just paying for premium without ads
Get Peacock Premium for free from my ISP so that doesn't count.
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Lol so many "pirates" in here
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"piracy is a service issue" - if a product doesn't cost much and saves you time/effort then it can be worth paying a little versus essentially paying yourself less than minimum wage if it's hard to pirate (depends how valuable your time is though!)
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None :). I have neither the luxury nor the budget to pay for subscriptions.
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Spotify and Discord Nitro. I'm thinking of using the entire Proton suite in the near future.
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I use the whole proton suite and love it so much. If you didn't know, depending on your subscription you also have access to premium features on SimpleLogin
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Oh wow, never heard of Simple Login. Thank you!
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I'm currently using Proton Suite. Proton pass (password manager) was just released and doesn't work for me for whatever reason but everything else is top notch 👌🏼 Would highly recommend
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For password manager, I swear by Bitwarden. It's open source, has a self hosted option, and 100% usable for free. They have a very cheap subscription option for some not too vital features (most particularly support for using Bitwarden as your TOTP app and encrypted file sharing).
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-Spotify family I can never cut, college present for my sibling. -Hulu+disney+ for $3/month till November -dropout.tv, I love everything they do and they deserve my money. -youtube premium, i got sick of weird commercials when my kid watches. Hulu and disney are gone when the subscription runs out, and anything else is sailing.
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Hell yes, Dropout!
We've got Dropout for the foreseeable future, Crunchyroll until we catch up on MHA, Disney+ until December, and Max for free from our ISP. Cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago.
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For YouTube you can block ads with a better DNS setup with NextDNS or Adguard and UblockOrigin in the browser.
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None at the moment, used to have a Netflix subscription but not even that now.
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Only Spotify, and that's on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.
... However, I do have a
spotdlscript on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).
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Spotify (great service and easily worth it) & Amazon Prime (but that’s really an extra bonus on top of the same day and next day free delivery?
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Mullvad.
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None. I used to subscribe to quite a few services, but replaced all of them with a VPN subscription, some external disks and a bit of cloud storage.
- Apple Music: They didn't do anything wrong per se, but a recent price increase made me aware of the fact that I mostly listen to the same albums anyway, so I started building up my own music collection again
- Amazon Prime: Subscribed mostly for shipping, but over time Amazon had more and more junk and fake items on sale, the search no longer showed the items I was explicitly looking for, and at some point I just had enough.
- Netflix: I simply couldn't find good stuff to watch anymore
- DAZN: Got way too expensive here
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My thoughts exactly! 💯 now using only VPN and using torrent trackers + little bit of YouTube to watch stuff.
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This is the way
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None, cancelled Netflix when they started fucking around with the single household requirement.
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Just Spotify at the moment. I might look into trying to stream from Netflix without streaming from Netflix sometime while using friends' passwords for other places. Once my currently roommate but soon to not be roommate (moving back in with parents soon) doesn't renew their Dropout subscription, I'd be willing to sign up for that only because I am willing to support the people over at CollegeHumor.
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I pay for the only streaming related site worth it's money and that's Real Debrid (or any of the equivalent alternatives). Stremio + Torrentio Addon to friends and family even if they don't know shit about technology cause it's so damn easy and fast.
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Just Spotify, they haven't ruined their service yet. I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s and think normal people want to transfer files around between devices.
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Not all boomers who manually download mp3s transfer them around. I'm one of those "boomers" (I'm in my 30s) that download their mp3s because I like to own my stuff. I then stream it to my devices using a selfhosted media server without transferring anything.
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Yeah that sounds like a very painful experience
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Amazon Prime, though probably won't renew next year with how crappy shopping on Amazon has gotten. Don't want anything on Prime at all.
Currently have a Netflix sub that I plan to let expire.
Have a crunchyroll sub, every once and a while I sub to HiDive to a month to binge a series.
For music I'm subbed to Deezer.
I also have YouTube Premium and a sub to Floatplane.
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Amazon prime. Cruncyroll.. The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack
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In the case of Crunchyroll why not configure sonarr to scrape nyaa? Crunchyroll at least in my country has a pretty bad catalog, skip some seasons for whatever reason (kaguya it has the second season only, don’t have the 4th season of jojo neither the second of takagi-san etc etc…) and…. There are no other options for anime streaming here. So I said fuck it and configured sonarr, set the filters and everything , now I download everything from there and don’t have to depend on Crunchyroll. It works almost flawless, Only had a few misses like kimetsu no Yaiba that for some reason it insisted on picking up some unknown raw groups over the English subbed ones with higher scores on my list, but those cases are pretty rare.
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Apple TV+. They are releasing some really spectacular shows (Ted Lasso, Severence, Silo) and enough fillers between the spectacular stuff.
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If you like sci-fi try "Foundation" on Apple+
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Prime Video, AppleTV, Disney+, Crunchyroll, and Spotify. I also benefit from Netflix, Dropouttv, YouTube Premium through different friends. Despite all that there’s still so much content I can’t even access without sailing the high seas.
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I have Netflix, Hulu, Real-debrid and Spotify. I only pay for Hulu and Spotify (thanks T-mobile for Netflix)
I use Kodi for the bulk of my TV and Movie viewing.
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Nothing. Why pay for an inferior experience?
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Never pay for an inferior experience, but for £2.50 a month the experience of using Spotify instead of having to manually find, download, synchronise, and manage a music library is worth it for me.
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I pay for youtube ( with a turkish card) I pay for spotify ( in a family tariff that makes it reasonable) I pay for Dropout cause they deliver me quality over quantity
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Deezer so that I can use Deemix to download .flac from their library
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Glad I'm not the only one.
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Does it still work?
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Yup!
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Bandcamp. People don't really consider it a streaming service but I've used it a ton to stream my music purchases from their website & Android app. (also have all the music downloaded on my main storage at home)
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Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.
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Only spotify premium
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But even that can be pirated
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True, but if some people don’t pirate just for free stuff, they do because the paid alternatives are either non existent or of poor quality.
Spotify gives you a really huge library of music to stream with easy to use good quality apps across pretty much everything all without the need of juggling dozens of other subscriptions and jumping through hoops for regional access etc
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What's a streaming service
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I just canceled Netflix after the latest crackdown, so I'm down to Amazon Prime now- mostly for the free shipping. Though I support some creators directly with backed.by and Patreon.
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Mullvad VPN AB's new streaming services, great selection, good speed, and low prices.
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Tidal. I lowkey hate spotify and I think the audio quality is the same or better, for the same price (I don't shell out for the highest tier).
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Can I ask why you hate Spotify? Is there a problem with their service or is it more about how they treat artists?
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Besides promoting Joe Rogan during the height of the pandemic when he was on a real stream of misinformation about COVID? Yeah it's mostly how they treat artists they're just like YouTube (and Tidal for that matter) where they claim to care about artists but there's no way anyone but the top 1% is actually making living wage money from streaming. I just use Tidal cause pirating music took up too much storage for me and it makes music discovery a little more convenient.
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Too many.. Netflix, Apple TV, HBO max, Disney plus, prime video… and the amount of times I need to pirate stuff is still increasing. If this gets any worse, and it probably will, I will cancel most or all of my subscriptions.
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- Amazon Prime because of free & faster deliveries
- Hotstar due to live cricket & oneFC events
- Spotify
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Honestly, Spotify is probably at the top of my "pirate if possible" list. I've been a guest performer on a couple of tracks and seen some backend stuff, and let me tell you, the only people you're depriving of income are the ones who are already wealthy giants. Spotify robs the rest of them blind already.
You wanna know what 50k listens to a song totals out to for someone who isn't a huge name? $50.
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If you can afford it: Listen to them on spotify if it's the most convinient product + then support your favorite artists in other ways (eg. Order merch from their website, see them live, twitch, patreon).
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None, selfhosted is the way.
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None
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- Netflix with a friend.
- Netflix on my own after I had no interest in watching more but my friend did. He kept the account, I made a new one later on.
- Netflix + Prime. Watched very little on Prime. A bit on Netflix.
- Plex + Netflix/Prime. Started with a Raspi4 4gb running plex in docker
- Jellyfin + Netflix/Prime
- Jellyfin + Netflix. Ordered too much...
- Only Jellyfin
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A timeline that shows how charging for inconvenience just drives us back to piracy.
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The only streaming service subscription I pay for is Dropout.tv.
I get Netflix for free. I get HBO Max for free. I used to get Spotify for free but gave up my spot in the family plan as I don't use it often enough. I can't tell you the last time I've used Netflix or HBO Max.
I replaced Audible with Audiobookshelf, and replaced Crunchyroll & Hulu with Plex + automations. No replacement for Spotify yet, I can use YouTube ReVanced to listen to a YouTube playlist while driving.
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YouTube music ReVanced exist. I also use xManager for Spotify.
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Currently, none. I used to use Netflix, Prime video and Spotify, but when they started removing some of my favorite content I went fully local.
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I pay for nordvpn and the electric cost of my server fuck Netflix and Hulu and all that
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Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.
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Personally I’m only paying for Spotify (while working away in the background to build my own collection) and Kayo, which is an Australian sports service. There is a little bit of fragmentation for sport in Australia but I’ve been lucky with Kayo as they’ve picked up stuff I was paying for elsewhere and it’s become better value over the time I’ve been subscribed.
Netflix is the only major one I’ve ever really paid for and their password gimmick was the straw that broke that for me.
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