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[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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....

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

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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[-] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago

I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That's all.

[-] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

I don't pay for a fuck.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

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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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago

I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s (...)

I take it as a personal insult, and wish you to step barefoot on a Lego!

[-] jemorgan@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40?

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[-] dan@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

A good quality usenet server.

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[-] Argurotoxus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] zouhair@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.

[-] meadowpianotoad@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

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

[-] PlaidDragon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I primarily watch YouTube on my smart TV. There are pretty much no other options to avoid ads.

[-] tehnomad@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I use SmartTube on my Chromecast to watch YT without ads.

[-] ours@lemmy.film 7 points 2 years ago

It even has Sponsorblock. built-in. It's the best Youtube experience on TV.

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[-] kat@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] jmf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Spotify xModManager for android with ublock manager on the desktop is a great way to cut the cord on spotify premium :)

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Lol so many "pirates" in here

[-] bug@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago

"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!)

[-] illyria817@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] 0range0281@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

None :). I have neither the luxury nor the budget to pay for subscriptions.

[-] nx5qly@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

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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[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Spotify and Discord Nitro. I'm thinking of using the entire Proton suite in the near future.

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[-] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] colonial@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only Spotify, and that's on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.

... However, I do have a spotdl script on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).

[-] something@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

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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[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 8 points 2 years ago

None, cancelled Netflix when they started fucking around with the single household requirement.

[-] Segin@vlemmy.net 8 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Evrala@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] ilco@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

Amazon prime. Cruncyroll.. The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack

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[-] Yaks@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[-] DataDreadnought@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] bleu7970@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

I pay for nordvpn and the electric cost of my server fuck Netflix and Hulu and all that

[-] Kiwi_Slayer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

I've tried them all, but I've settled on family subscriptions of Spotify and Youtube Premium, and an amazon prime account that is only used for shipping.

I guess technically I have Plex Pass, but I bought a lifetime pass 10 years ago.

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[-] cat4laugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

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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[-] dasprii@lemmy.froztbyte.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Deezer so that I can use Deemix to download .flac from their library

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[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

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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[-] IslandGo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.

[-] sewashi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago
  • Amazon Prime because of free & faster deliveries
  • Hotstar due to live cricket & oneFC events
  • Spotify
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