What streaming services do you pay for?
What streaming services do you pay for?
Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That's all.
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....
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.
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.
I don't pay for a fuck.
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.
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.
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
Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.
None, selfhosted is the way.
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.
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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
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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.
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Netflix: I simply couldn't find good stuff to watch anymore
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DAZN: Got way too expensive here
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In my country India, I pay for
Amazon Prime - ₹1500 per year Netflix - ₹200 per month (total is like ₹800 but 4 people share it).
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.
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.
Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), Plex, Max, Spotify, and Prime. Sometimes Apple TV. And Sling for NFL Red Zone in the fall
I used to pay about $5 for Disney/Star+ for my family but it immediately became a waste, the content was crap and they barely used it.
So then I decided to buy an Android TV box thingy and sideload Stremio, way better than any subscription, they use it all the time. I like it because they see recommendations of shows and movies on their social media and immediately jump into Stremio.
Only for NFLX for the last decade or so, I would had cancelled that subscription years ago, but the guys I share my account with insist in keeping that Netflix account.
I have absolutely no idea why. I haven't watched Netflix in years myself. Well I pay 10 bucks a month for Netflix and the other guys are paying me 12 bucks a month, so this useless subscription costs me -2 bucks every month.
For me pirating is more convenient than watching the very same stuff on Netflix, especially since Netflix stopped working on some of my devices...
Real-Debrid.com and Stremio. Can watch ALL content for less than 4$ a month, and even less if you buy a full year outright.
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Only Spotify, and that's on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.
... However, I do have a
spotdlscript on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).Spotify and MUBI only
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.
I pay for Netflix, but only the ad-supported tier now. My wife uses it to discover new shows, then I download copies of it for my Plex media library.
Real Debrid
Me: Sling, Disney+, HBO Max
My Wife: Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Primereal-debrid, discounted Netflix and Disney+ from one of those third party sellers. Spotify family, paid between 4 people Most recently Prime but just for prime day deals and fast delivery.
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.
HBO Max comes with my ISP's fiber plan, and I like that they get 4K releases relatively quick out of theater from certain studios. If they ever fuck with the pricing or bundle I'm on though, I'm outta there.
Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.
Netflix, Amazon, f1tv
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.
Wow and here I thought I've spent too much on subscriptions!
- Plex lifetime pass (through Turkey)
- Whatever close to 100% cashback VPN provider, currently with PIA
- Seedbox, paid annually
- Prime for shipping occasionally, I can find the torrent for the shows elsewhere so rarely use it to watch anything
I don't use Youtube often, so NewPipe on mobile and uBlock Origin on browsers are sufficient so far. XManager for Spotify as well.
May consider paying for Tidal (through Turkey), but don't really see the need at the moment.
Why do people pay for common streaming subscriptions when they can just pirate?
Youtube Premium, Spotify, and Amazon Prime.
Spotify and Netflix. Since they are so far the only platforms that stick to streaming media and are not trying to take over the world. I guess HBO would be fine too.
CrunchyRoll because it's cheap and convenient. Pro tip: sign up through a roku for a longer free trial and cheaper sub.
A good quality usenet server.
Mullvad.
Bandcamp. People don't really consider it a streaming service but I've used it a ton to stream my music purchases from their website & Android app. (also have all the music downloaded on my main storage at home)
Proton Enterprise lol
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?
Mullvad, and I'm addicted to buying hard disks and SSDs, never got subscriptions btw, I can just pirate
mullvad for movies, and spotify for music.
Amazon Prime (with Paramount+ add on), SlingTV, and occasionally PBS Masterpiece
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.
None! My internet connection is slow so streaming is just not an option. Downloading content beforehand is the only way for me to watch anything over 480p without buffering.
Personally pay for:
- Crunchyroll
- Hi-Dive (has some good picks that Crunchyroll doesn't, but for the most part simulcast selection is much smaller and inferior to Crunchyroll. Site and app functionality are also inferior)
- Vudu - Also have bought/curated a large collection of movies/tv series on Vudu, with most of the Movies being shared to movies anywhere (wish there was a similar service for TV series).
- TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast network club membership (free for most podcasts, but want to support the network)
Others in the family pay for in descending order of usage:
- Youtube Premium (would still watch most without premium, just it's paid for already)
- Netflix [strict instructions to never keep for me, cancel if they try to force it]
- Hulu [primary for newer one punch man seasons, and upcoming new futurama season]
- Prime [...for shopping, but you know, prime streaming is included]
- Netflix with a friend.
- Netflix on my own after I had no interest in watching more but my friend did. He kept the account, I made a new one later on.
- Netflix + Prime. Watched very little on Prime. A bit on Netflix.
- Plex + Netflix/Prime. Started with a Raspi4 4gb running plex in docker
- Jellyfin + Netflix/Prime
- Jellyfin + Netflix. Ordered too much...
- Only Jellyfin
Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Shudder.
I also pay content creators for a ton of podcasts and stuff like that.
I have quite a few, as I find streaming services in general to be very much worth my money and to be very convenient. It's when stuff isn't on any streaming site where I personally consider piracy acceptable. While I dislike the fragmentation of streaming services, I will pay for whatever streaming service the content I want to watch is on. I do want to support things I enjoy so long as the price is reasonable, and streaming service prices are all reasonable in my book.
- Youtube Music - I switched from Spotify ages ago due to content it didn't have at the time, but may no longer apply. I recently upgraded to Youtube Premium because I've started using Youtube more often and detest ads.
- Disney+ - I've found that here in Canada, D+ is the best streaming service in terms of quantity of content. We basically get all or most of what is on Hulu in the US.
- Crave - In Canada, this is basically how you get HBO content. I subscribed to watch The Last of Us and have been sticking around to watch older HBO shows too.
- Amazon Prime - This is mostly for the shipping. The fact I get some shows out of this is a bonus. It has fewer shows that I care about.
- Nintendo Premium - For multiplayer and also some DLCs that got included with it. I find this to be the lowest value of the subscriptions I have, especially since I rotate what consoles I'm using and am strongly considering canceling it.
- Dropbox - offsite backup is important and I don't want to manage it myself (nor have the risk that comes with that).
- Some random Patreons and most recently lemm.ee's equivalent.
I'm not currently subscribed to Netflix because I regularly rotate what streaming service I'm subscribed to. When I'm done with what I'm watching on Crave and/or Disney+, I'll unsubscribe to those and maybe resubscribe to Netflix. Rinse and repeat. In the past, I've also used Paramount+ (worst streaming app I've ever used), Dropout (I subscribed for Game Changer and stuck around because of Dimension 20, but haven't had the time, so unsubscribed for now), and Ubisoft+ (I did the math and concluded it was better to subscribe for 2 months to play Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla than to buy the full games with all their DLC -- I'll totally do it again next time they have a newer release I wanna play).
I make good money and really have no concerns with paying for all these. A couple dozen bucks a month for entertainment is nothing for me and highly worth it, especially to avoid any wrangling with finding and acquiring content. I also feel strongly about wanting to pay any reasonable amount for things I enjoy. To me, piracy is almost entirely about access and not about price. Heck, these days, most piracy I've done is for older games that you literally cannot find legitimately anymore.
Amazon prime and YouTube Premium Family.
YouTube premium because I watch a lot of YouTube and don't want to deal with ads on platforms that are harder to adblock (Roku, for example) and I use YT music because it comes with it and I don't care enough about music to download it.
Twitch Turbo because I watch a ton of that as well and don't want to fight their ads.
Everything else I surf the high seas for, but I do have a few Usenet and Indexer memberships so the high seas aren't exactly free for me.
YouTube music but only because I got it work via VPN to Argentina for a cheap sub. Same goes for Netflix but via Turkey.
Disney+ is cheap via a voucher on a VPN too, but expires soon. However, just renewed my phone contact which comes with Disney free for 3 months. This phone provider also got me Duolingo free for 3 months.
Phone provider is O2.
Torrent everything else.
Did have Amazon but video content was lacking really... Though really missing the free delivery, so may sub again.
If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.
None (yet), although having everything available through my siblings (Netflix, Disney, prime, hbo and sky).
Despite that still have to pirate some movies and TV shows lol.
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.
Spotify and Dropout.tv
Real Debrid
Nothing. Those kike bastards will never get a shekel out of me.
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Real Debrid