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[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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 2 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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[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nothing. Why pay for an inferior experience?

[–] bug@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not being able to listen to everything I want makes it inferior. I'm also fundamentally against paying money for things that don't actually pass that money on to the people who deserve it (in this case, the artists). If I spend money on music I just buy the album directly from the artist.

[–] bug@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fair enough, it works for me but not for everyone

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'm not criticising. Just explaining my position further. :)

[–] Argurotoxus@lemmy.world 2 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.

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

I don't pay for a fuck.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

None. It's stupid to have to pay monthly for access to someone else's content collection when I used to be able to buy content for life and build my own collection, so now I either stream things for free on unofficial sites or download them via unofficial sources. I'll still buy CDs and DVDs occasionally but streaming is bullshit and I'm not playing along.

Most of my media consumption is gaming. I'll happily pay for games, but not for subscription based games, cloud based games, or game library subscriptions like Gamepass. I want to keep what I buy. This "you will own nothing and be happy" future is a dreadful one.

[–] piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good attitude, but I thought the same thing about filmora video editing software and that turned out bad.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 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.

[–] Segin@vlemmy.net 1 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?

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

i do use a couple streaming services, but i don't pay for any of them. i do pay for a vpn usually, but i am currently between such services. i think my partner pays for spotify.

[–] something@sh.itjust.works 1 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

[–] zouhair@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 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 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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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[–] nx5qly@pawb.social 1 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.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 1 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.

[–] DataDreadnought@lemmy.one 1 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.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

seedbox or vps(torrent) in a privacy/legal protected country may be a viable alternative for mainstream movie or tv shows.
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=country%20internet%20privacy%20law

[–] dan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

A good quality usenet server.

[–] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] Batpool23@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hulu, Peacock both had blackfriday deals. Amazon Prime of course...but for some reason I still have Netflix, gotta ditch that shit.

[–] yyy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Amazon Prime of course? That's the worst one in my opinion

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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