I’m usually against subscription services, but there are a few I use that I think provide enough value to justify the cost. Are there subscriptions you think are worth the money for you?
Deezer. Last year I listened to 770hrs of music. The majourity of that using the suggestion algorithm. I couldn’t buy that many albums and I certainly couldn’t name the all the albums I’ve pulled songs from.
At home I’m an album person. But, in the distractions of everyday life keep blasting singles at me and I’ll wait for something to catch my ear.
Also, Deez nutz jokes are so easy.
The Atlantic. Because of its magazine heritage, there’s the perfect number of new articles per day (5 or 10), all top notch journalism and beautifully written. I look forward to reading a few of them each evening.
Taxes. They pay fory wifes wage.
“Hello, IRS? Yes, I’d like to cancel my tax subscription, please.”
With enough money you can.
Amazon Prime; I run a business repairing things. I’m small enough that I can’t afford to keep everything in stock for various makes/models. Getting it here quickly allows me to repair more machines faster. There are no places to get the parts I need locally.
YouTube premium. Mostly for music but no-ads is nice.
I have the basic iCloud sub but it feels like a scam. I should at least get more storage if I buy more Apple products. If you have two devices your backups get too big for the free storage amount.
I offloaded a bunch of things from iCloud but it becomes a hassle for how cheap their subscription is.
Max. Better than Netflix any day.
I know this is the “wrong answer,” but YouTube. I watch it a lot, and mostly on my PS in the evenings. If I only watched it in my phone or PC, I wouldn’t bother.
I also pay for Spotify for my mom and I, and ProtonVPN/Mail for myself. Oh, and PS+, which I still think is bullshit. 🙄
It’s only a ‘wrong answer’ because people here downvote on an ideological basis. If it works for you, then it’s okay 👍
Signal Lemmy Pi-hole Bitwarden YouTube + a whole raft of creators
Prime video
A daily newspaper, a monthly computer science paper, internet, electricity, water, gas. That’s probably it.
Spotify. I started paying because I got fed up with shuffling my mp3 files from one place to another.
80% of the time I’m not angry at them. This day and age that is a high score. Hey Spotify: if you want to improve your score fix your recommendations during Eurovision Song Contest. There is nothing in my playlists that suggests that I’ll even be remotely interested.
- ComEd, electricity
- Verizon, phone
- Spectrum, Internet - not cable because I refuse to watch commercials.
Yes these are technically subscription services.
- Pandora because _fuck ads and commercials - I never listen to the radio anymore.
The rest of my subscriptions are hit-or-miss. Disney+ because my fiancee likes keeping it I guess technically qualifies.
Surprising this thread is so positive so I’ll share mine I’ve gotten downvoted for before:
Discord Nitro.I use it a lot as I’m active in a bunch of servers. I don’t even pay for the expensive one, just the $3/month one and it’s TOTALLY worth being able to make emojis of my cat and annoy people with them, here are my favorited and frequently used emojis:
I use nitro for emotes, everything else is just them annoying the fuck out of me.
This is a better ad for Nitro than I’ve ever seen from Discord haha.
I don’t subscribe to much as I try to avoid subscriptions
Bit warden subbed as soon as last pass went to shit Duolingo been studying Spanish every day Crunchyroll anime High-dive anime not on Crunchyroll
Mullvad VPN!
