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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....
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.
I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That's all.
I don't pay for a fuck.
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.
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.
Spotify xModManager for android with ublock manager on the desktop is a great way to cut the cord on spotify premium :)
None. I run Jellyfin locally. No license bullshit or fifty different services. Don't even need internet if it goes down and I can curate my own library.
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'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
I primarily watch YouTube on my smart TV. There are pretty much no other options to avoid ads.
I use SmartTube on my Chromecast to watch YT without ads.
It even has Sponsorblock. built-in. It's the best Youtube experience on TV.
If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.
None :). I have neither the luxury nor the budget to pay for subscriptions.
Spotify only. I get an Amazon Prime voucher for 30 days from another telco whenever I subscribe to a data plan.
Lol so many "pirates" in here
"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!)
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.
-Spotify family I can never cut, college present for my sibling. -Hulu+disney+ for $3/month till November -dropout.tv, I love everything they do and they deserve my money. -youtube premium, i got sick of weird commercials when my kid watches. Hulu and disney are gone when the subscription runs out, and anything else is sailing.
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.
Spotify and Discord Nitro. I'm thinking of using the entire Proton suite in the near future.
Mullvad.
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).
None, cancelled Netflix when they started fucking around with the single household requirement.
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
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?
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.
I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.
None at the moment, used to have a Netflix subscription but not even that now.
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.
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.
Amazon prime. Cruncyroll.. The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack
Prime Video, AppleTV, Disney+, Crunchyroll, and Spotify. I also benefit from Netflix, Dropouttv, YouTube Premium through different friends. Despite all that there’s still so much content I can’t even access without sailing the high seas.
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.
Apple TV+. They are releasing some really spectacular shows (Ted Lasso, Severence, Silo) and enough fillers between the spectacular stuff.
If you like sci-fi try "Foundation" on Apple+
None
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.
Mullvad VPN AB's new streaming services, great selection, good speed, and low prices.
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.
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.
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).