What web services do you subscribe to?

I self-host everything and subscribe to nothing.

If my router/server/Nas is powered on anyway, it might as well do the lot.

At the moment none, I don’t find any of it worth the money. I’m more of; that’s a good thing to pirate.

I really hope ur using chatgpt via api and not their own frontend api is far cheaper and there is a multitude of clients u can use

Kagi, Sider, YouTube Premium.

Philosophical monthly support:

• Grapheneos
• Eff
• Tor
• Briar
• Molly

Everyone's mum's only fans for online gaming

Mullvad, Bitwarden, Tuta.

Spotify? Does that count? Literally the only thing I subscribe to for money.

Literally nothing. All self hosted if I need it. Fuck subscription fees

Subscribe to?

None.

That is out of priciple to me, I refuse to have automatically renews subscriptions on my card.

I will however buy gift cards for services and buy new as I need them.

For that, I have one.

Geoguessr.

That game has helped me a shitload when I have been depressed, and now that I can afford it I buy gift cards for the time when I can't in the future.

• ChatGPT (API only)
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Astrill VPN
• sync.com (cloud storage with better encryption and lower prices than dropbox)
• a small VPS (gullo.me for $5 a year)
• webhosting package (all-inkl.com, 7.95€/month)

Think that's it for the time being.

• Bitwarden
• Racknerd VPS
• Backblaze B2
• PIA VPN
• Purelymail
• Usenet
• ChatGPT API

And the occasional donation to open source projects like pihole.

Just a VPN. Thinking about trying out Proton's suite and maybe pay for that if it's worth it. Otherwise I'm more and more leaning on OSS and self hosted things these days because corporations have shown themselves not to be trusted with anything important.

Not really productivity services, but to name a couple,

• Google One (extra storage, bonus YouTube Premium & YT Music premium)
• MXroute for mail hosting (used to self host)
• Amazon Prime (for the shipping, the content is a bonus for us)
• Hulu (kid's gotta see that ONE show... 🙄)
• Lemmy.world (via Patron)
• Couple of YouTube creators and app publishers I enjoy regularly (via Patreon)

I'm considering joining Nebula because many of the creators I frequently watch on YouTube are setting up shop up over there, and I'm getting irritated with YouTube for how The Algorithm is affecting the quality and content of the infotainment channels I enjoy.

1. Nebula, to support YT creators while spiting YT
2. A Domain name provider for my web domain

That's it. I don't quite avoid subscriptions like the plague anymore, but I still almost never pay for them.

Permanently Deleted

Spotify but only because we are all sharing a family plan and the price makes sense at that point for the convenience.

As soon as Spotify gets rid of family plans and account sharing (just like all other streaming platforms) I’ll sail the seas with Lidarr.

Only a 3.50€ VPS on OVH. Gets the job done. For music I just use firehawk52’s Deezer ARLs to download the music. For TV shows/movies the obvious is piracy. The whole subscription model drives me away from services.

• YouTube Premium
• Apple One Family (Music, TV+, iCloud, Arcade)
• HBO Max (best value for high quality content but Apple is very close these days)
• Prime (barely use it but it's $12/yr here)
• Game Pass Ultimate
• Usenet Farm, couple of odd blocks and indexers
• Carrot Weather

Considering paying for RSS provider but they all seem overpriced for what they do above Feedly free tier.

Mullvad, ProtonDrive, and my mobile data plan if that counts.

I stopped subscribing to Google drive, but truthfully I miss Google photos a lot because of how good it is, privacy aside.

...none. I donate to foss projects monthly though so it's a subscription in spirit but it's not really classified as a subscription

• Firefox Relay ($1/month)
• Bitwarden ($22/year, premium + family org)
• Inoreader ($15/year, Supporter to be ad-free)
• Joplin (donating 2$/month to the dev)
• Spotify (Family plan)
• Netflix (2 screens, HD)
• Amazon Prime (for faster free shipping and Prime Video)
• Amazon Kids+ (for the kids Fire HD tablets, they can play almost anything they want)
• IFTTT Pro+ ($4/month, legacy plan)
• NextDNS ($28/year) for the convenience of a pihole-like setup without having to host it
• Google One 2TB for the extra features and storage for my wife's business at home.
• Cheap-ass VPS on Atlantic.net ($1/month, legacy plan)
• 2 domain names, around $25/year for both on NameCheap

• Proton
• Nebula
• Deezer

Spotify, Netflix, Fastmail, a VPN (Pure I think at the moment), I think that's about it.

YouTube Premium

Unless you're doing it for YouTube Music, this seems absurd to me. On desktop traditional ad blockers work perfectly, and on mobile there's Revanced or Grayjay.

Anyway, I pay for Nebula.

I give some bucks to disroot for email and cloud services and I donate monthly to a local server that hosts a mastodon instance and some other goodies. I occasionally donate to some software projects

My partner subscribes to media services which I use too, like max, Spotify and others.

-Chatgpt -Mulivad VPN -Two twitch subs (one so I can feed ducks once a day, the other for a wholesome dude) -Two domain names

Bitwarden

Proton Family

Spotify Family

Nintendo online

1 small Contabo VPS to host rocket chat

1 larger Contabo VPS for my main Nextcloud and Immich instances

1Pass NordVpn ChatGPT YouTube Premium

Surfshark VPN and YouTube premium. Recently cancelled Netflix and Amazon prime. Not much but I've had enough of subscriptions.

Aside from the VPS and object storage for housing Leminal Space, just Proton Mail. And The Anfield Wrap if we're counting podcasts.

Mullvad and Tuta are the only services I pay for monthly

I used to, but I don't these days because the prices kept going up while the value kept going down. My last subscription was Pandora and Paramount+, but I wasn't using it enough to justify the continued cost.

I also hate ads on a paid service, that shouldn't be a thing. If there are ads, it should be free like Pluto.tv, Tubi, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.

• email
• Nebula
• Kagi
• domains and hosting
• VPN
• windyty

• Bitwarden
• Addy.io

ProtonMail, with my own domain, so that I have full control over my online identity and Spotify. As a developer I don't need anything else, I can work just fine with freely available stuff.

Pcloud, NordVPN, Tidal, reMarkable sync

I'd use Obsidian Sync too if I used Obsidian across devices. I just back my vaults up in the cloud.

spotify, NextDNS, 1password, lifetime pcloud, Microsoft 365 on annual sales, notesnook. I guess I donate to my mastodon/Lemmy instance and immich development.

• Mullvad
• 1Password
• pCloud
• Kagi
• Real Debrid
• YouTube Premium
• Posteo
• Deezer
• Qobus
• Tidal Hifi

(Yes i listen a lot to music)

Bitwarden because it's super convenient, as well as Youtube Premium because I watch a ton of youtube. I also leech off my family's spotify premium subscription, so I don't pay for that personally but it is a subscription service I use. On top of that, I pay for a debrid service for pirating media since I'm sick and tired of the streaming service economy, which has been an excellent investment. And lastly I do pay for XBox Game Pass, though once I beat persona 3 reload I'm probably cancelling that.

Once I find work I'll probably subscribe to proton because I'd like to move a bit more away from google, but I'm not really in a rush to do that given my use of youtube premium and such. Kind of a longer term goal.

• Proton
• Bitwarden
• VPN
• Spotify

All I need as a student. I have a few open source projects that I aim to support monthly, as soon as I get my first paycheck after I'm finished with my degree, might count those as subscriptions then.

Just a VPS. £4/month.

Bitwarden and a domain, if it counts.

Mythic beasts server hosting, namecheap domain hosting.

Also a dev.

• Protonmail
• YT premium
• Hetzner VPS (€20/m)
• Cloudflare domains

Seedbox (+included vpn)
Usenet
YT Prem
Spotify
Ionos Mail
O365 (but I bought vouchers for 3 years at a reduced price)
-> I prefer Outlook over Thunderbird. Though with the new interface they had done I will probably migrate to it once it expires. The OneDrive storage is used for Obsidian.md. I store obsidian locally but sync it with the community plugin "remotely save").
Bitwarden
1 or 2 items I don't remember right now.

ProtonMail and Spotify. I'm also paying for one podcast but I do it voluntarily.

Edit: and Mullvad

• AWS Cloud services
• Azure devops build services
• OpenAI API
• JetBrains Toolbox
• OneDrive
• Protonmail

Not really subscribed to anything. Most of the OTT subscriptions are bundled with the ISP

Paying around 20$ for domains renewal and thinking to get an email server which will be around 7$/year.

just for pia vpn since i don't trust free vpns, also try claude opus instead of chatgpt, it's better imo.

None.

Just a vpn

• bitwarden
• proton VPN
• purelymail

Express VPN for foreign free to air TV, ad blocking on multiple devices. 200gb Google Cloud storage. Vultr VPN for Wireguard.

I'm a software engineer as well, but (almost) none of my subscriptions are related to that. Currently:

• Netflix
• Disney+ bundle
• Bitwarden (yearly)
• DNS names (yearly) - currently unused because I bailed on Vultr due to TOS BS; this is for personal projects
• Tiller (yearly) - pulls transactions from my various accounts

That's about it. Everything else I buy one at a time, like video games or donations.

I'd like to drop Netflix and Disney+ over their stupid ad policy, but my wife and kids use them a lot.

Here's some stuff I plan to get soon:

• VPN - probably Mullvad
• Tuta - finally axe Google
• VPS - probably Hetzner; I'd prefer one without forced arbitration though; could get by if something like Tailscale allowed custom domains and port forwards
• Backblaze B2 - backups

For me, as an SRE:

• Mullvad VPN
• Google Drive (until I set up my NAS)
• YouTube Premium
• ChatGPT (but I am thinking of trying out Claude 3 instead)

Other, non-tech subscriptions:

• Public transport
• Public bike sharing
• Food delivery

Things I might pay for if my employer didn't:

• IntelliJ Ultimate
• GitHub Copilot

Random IT-adjacent services I occasionally donate to:

• Codeberg
• Wikipedia

Google One, Spotify, Netflix and Nebula.

• ChatGPT
• Midjourney
• YouTube Premium (which I get through a mobile phone subscription at a heavy discount)
• Spotify
• Channel4 ad-free (UK broadcaster)

In addition I support a range of software through GitHub and Patreon:

• PhotoPrism
• Gluetun
• Little Navmap
• wg-easy
• DuckDNS

Finally I’ve got paid access to a couple of major and minor media sources:

• Washington Post
• Jyllands Posten (largest Danish newspaper)
• Olfi (specialised Danish defense news, named after a Danish frigate Olfert Fisher)
• Krigskunst (“The Art of War”, specialised Danish defense podcast)
• Det Hemmeligste at Det Hemmelige (podcast about spy craft and stay behind movements during the Cold War - just gone behind a pay wall but used to run on a public service channel)

A couple of video streaming services, Hulu, which includes Disney+, Discovery+ and Netflix. That totals up to like $50/mo or so.

Other than that, it's aaaallllll independent creators, through Twitch or Patreon.

My data has a price

Too many but here’s a few off the top of my head:

• GitHub Pro and Copilot
• ChatGPT
• Linode (I self-host a lot of things but keep Nextcloud off-site for backups)
• YouTube Premium and Nebula
• RadarScope, Windy, and NightSky (astronomy hobby plus I live in NOLA so good weather apps are kind of a must have)
• Feedly
• Bitwarden
• TripIt
• Apple Music

There’s more but as a developer, I try to pay for software. (I mean, if I don’t, who will?) I’ll sail the high seas for some stuff but only if the company pisses me off.