Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That’s all.
Nothing. Why pay for an inferior experience?
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.
Not being able to listen to everything I want makes it inferior. I’m also fundamentally against paying money for things that don’t actually pass that money on to the people who deserve it (in this case, the artists). If I spend money on music I just buy the album directly from the artist.
Fair enough, it works for me but not for everyone
Yeah I’m not criticising. Just explaining my position further. :)
I don’t pay for a fuck.
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.
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.
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.
That’s a good attitude, but I thought the same thing about filmora video editing software and that turned out bad.
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.
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.
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.
real-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.
Netflix, Amazon, f1tv
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.
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.
Amazon prime and YouTube Premium Family.
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.
