Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That’s all.
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.
HDMI
Would setting up a raspberry pi-hole do the work? Asking from ignorance but IIRC, at least in the past, it got the job done
Not for youtube
Only helps on mobile, though.
Ublock origin
I’m shocked by the amount of people that don’t know of adblockers on desktop.
But then I remember, I have no life.
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.
Use a modded apk?
Sure. I could. But you misunderstand my point. As Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not a cost problem. Spotify’s service is clean and very nice to use, add on the available library and it makes it very worth my time to pay for and support it.
Hell yeah. I’ll pay a reasonable price for a service with lots of stuff on it if it’s reliable and has a great UI. I’ve considered Spotify, even though I have my beautiful flac collection. It’d be nice not to have to worry about converting them to my phone so I can listen in my car.
Spotify only. I get an Amazon Prime voucher for 30 days from another telco whenever I subscribe to a data plan.
you don’t even need to pay for that, as I found out recently. on desktop just use an adblocker and you’re good, and on mobile use this https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager assuming you have an android phone
Thanks, but I’m on the Family 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.
I don’t pay for a fuck.
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.
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I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.
who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40?
Gen X: still the forgotten generation.
Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier.
But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly.
The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy.
Not all boomers who manually download mp3s transfer them around. I’m one of those “boomers” (I’m in my 30s) that download their mp3s because I like to own my stuff. I then stream it to my devices using a selfhosted media server without transferring anything.
Yeah that sounds like a very painful experience
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.
Amazon prime. Cruncyroll… The rest Il jjust privateer from a server with jellyfin +arr stack
In the case of Crunchyroll why not configure sonarr to scrape nyaa? Crunchyroll at least in my country has a pretty bad catalog, skip some seasons for whatever reason (kaguya it has the second season only, don’t have the 4th season of jojo neither the second of takagi-san etc etc…) and…. There are no other options for anime streaming here. So I said fuck it and configured sonarr, set the filters and everything , now I download everything from there and don’t have to depend on Crunchyroll. It works almost flawless, Only had a few misses like kimetsu no Yaiba that for some reason it insisted on picking up some unknown raw groups over the English subbed ones with higher scores on my list, but those cases are pretty rare.
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.
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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.
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Fair enough, it works for me but not for everyone
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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.
