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?
Whole home cleansing. They send a guy out quarterly who assesses each room and blows sage around hot spots. My home isn’t very active but I sleep better at night knowing that there aren’t dark energies in risk corridors.
Proton - Mail, VPN, Calendar, Passwords, Notes
PBS - Gotta support public broadcasting.
The Satanic Temple - Helping support women’s rights, religious rights, compassion.
Usenet - Cheaper and better content than streaming services
Amazon prime and all the million services that bundle with it.
- 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.
Marine Traffic - I live by the sea.
Proton Mail - trying to give up Gmail.
Bitwarden - had to stop using the same password for everything.
My Row Counter - for knitting, it’s a fantastic app.
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
Mailbox.org
Real-Debrid+Stremio
Humble bundle
Mullvad VPN- Mullvad
- Addy.io
- A TV EPG provider so i can set my HTPC USB receivers to record stuff each week for the family (1. It details for specific channels new series/new episodes for the week aired between certain times of day which websites dont seem to do 2. Its cheaper & far more efficient than a TV mag/newspaper 3. Its extremely cheap so great value)
- I donate to some open source projects/devs when I find I’m using a product regularly
Technically, none.
But I do regularly buy gift cards for my self to get Geoguessr, I just refuse the whole subscription model.
If companies offered a one year pass without a subscription attached I believe they would have more customers.
They could even make it a few € more expensive than the normal subscription price for that period and I believe it would work fine.
A few weeks ago I found that you can get a lifetime pass for Nebula and Curiosity Stream for a resonable cost (a few hundred USD IIRC) and I am seriously considering it.
Bitwarden.
Annual donation to KDE Foundation.
Donations to a number of my podcast hosts.
Premiumize.
Real-Debrid. No more paying for compressed streaming services!
- meat delivery service. Organic butcher sends me meat everyweek
- A seed box (Whatbox). I’m paying USD 15/month, and they’ve actually upgraded my storage and bandwidth twice now without any price increases. I think I’ve been using that for roughly 10 years now. At this point, it’s cheaper than any single streaming service, while allowing me access to basically every TV show and movie ever produced, and I can easily share my library with friends via Plex. Now that I have *aars, it’s very little effort to keep up with my favorite shows.
- Whatever the YouTube music thing is called now. I signed up when it was brand new, and while I occasionally consider going back to piracy for music, it’s just not worth the effort for me these days, but I am extremely opposed to ads.
- Amazon Prime. I should probably cancel, but I don’t have a car and definitely utilize the same day delivery quite often.
- Housing. Do mortgage payments & HOA fees count as subscriptions? Lol. I definitely get a lot of value out of housing, and appreciate the fact that I don’t have to wonder if my landlord is going to renew my lease each year.
Just web hosting.
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.