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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    651·
    2 days ago

    Kagi.com - excellent search engine. Yes, it shouldn’t be needed, but in this day and age it clearly is. Excellent slop filter, and it let’s you downrank and uprank certain sites in your search results. And I just found out you can see the most popular sites for each category, so it’s fast and easy to see which sites probably are and aren’t worth having in your results at all. It makes internet search feel like it did 20 years ago.

    Namecheap.com - It’s where I have my domain names. Mostly because they aren’t godaddy.

    EDIT: Forgot to mention hetzner.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      101·
      2 days ago

      Yes, it shouldn’t be needed

      My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I’d much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.

      • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Yeah and when you’re using 200 different services and apps and pay for each and every one of them suddenly you have -$2K in your bank account each month, it’s not sustainable

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          3·
          2 days ago

          You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.

      • selfAwareCoder@programming.dev
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Agreed, and having heard of them for the first time today, their payment plan seems incredibly reasonable, crediting us for unused monthly plan credits means it’s basically pay as you go with a limit to avoid surprise bills, while avoiding the feeling of overpaying because I’m not using a service enough

  • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
    54·
    2 days ago

    What I pay for:

    What I “pay” for (through donations, if that counts):

    • The EFF
    • Wikipedia
    • GrapheneOS
    • Asahi Linux
    • Python

    I don’t really subscribe to much, but I’m definitely looking to expand the latter list, so I’ll probably start donating to the maintainers of ad blocker filter lists and seek out more organizations fighting the good fight.

      • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        I will be for sure! I’ve been trying out the different Fediverse “reddit clones” (for lack of better terminology) to see which one I liked the most (I started with just Lemmy) before I settled on which one I was going to support, but I’m pretty confident Piefed is the winner.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      Oh shit I forgot, Mullvad is such a given that I didn’t even consider it a paid service, it’s more like a utility bill for me, like electricity or broadband access.

      I cannot overstate how legit they are, if there is one company on the planet I trust like my family it’s them. Don’t ask how I know, but I have first hand information the lengths they go to to protect their customers. It’s run by Swedish 80’s OG hackers who have NO need for the money, they’re involved in other projects and have fuck you money, this is an idealist run outfit and they are legit as a MOTHERfuk. Trust that. They are on OUR side, they are TRON as far as I’m concerned, they fight for the user!

      • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Honestly I’d love if more companies could adopt their payment model. Phreeli looks like a solid cellular provider and I’m sure their double-blind armadillo thing is legit, but if I could just mail them an unmarked envelope with nothing but a numeric account identifier and some cash I’d like it way more. Same with Tuta. But I understand there’s some possibility for logistical concerns there (what happens if the user loses their account identifier? Too many banks still use SMS 2FA, etc. etc.).

  • durinn@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago
    • Tidal for music
    • Tuta for e-mail
    • SimpleLogin for mail aliases
    • Mullvad for VPN

    I spent a few minutes on going through my “invoices” directory in my mail, but I couldn’t find anything else. These four are all my online subscriptions. Everything else is IRL (water, electricity, rent, etc).

  • Blubber28@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Roll20. I play D&D twice a week, and the paid features (increased storage & dynamic lighting) are absolutely worth it. It’s not even super expensive; just $60/year. Totally worth it for how often I use it!

  • M137@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    There are three that I’ve happily subscribed to for years:

    Adguard Kagi Mega

    I use all three daily and they all more than make up for their price.

  • 0x0f@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Currently, I’m paying for a vps where I run a test environment for my homelab. I also pay for mail and vpn services, support some FOSS projects and buys music a couple times a month.

  • westingham@sh.itjust.works
    152·
    14 hours ago

    YouTube Premium. No ads and the creators I watch get paid more.

    Yes, I’m aware of all the apps out there that give you the Premium perks without actually paying for it. Here’s the thing: the VAST majority of my watching is done on my TV via an Apple TV and I really CBA to go through all the hoops to make any of those apps work with my setup.

    I don’t watch any other streaming services and I don’t watch cable / network TV. I’m okay paying for Premium to get the best experience.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 hours ago

      I don’t like it, but YouTube family is by far the most bang for buck for our family in hours watched vs price.

      And not having to watch any shitty ass ads on any YouTube client wherever I log in is amazing.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      91·
      14 hours ago

      I pay for that too but I wouldn’t say I’m HAPPY about paying for it. Because I remember when YouTube used to be free and had no ads.

      • 123@programming.dev
        2·
        13 hours ago

        They were not profitable though, you can only do that for so long before you fold and then no one gets anything.

      • Scrollone@feddit.it
        1·
        9 hours ago

        It’s still free and with no ads if you use Firefox + uBlock Origin on desktop, ReVanced on Android, SmartTube on Android TV.

  • Deestan@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    “Happily” rules out most streaming services I do pay for, but Nebula is still a valid answer.

    A Hetzner box i use for offloading hobby crap calculations to.

    Various patreons and patreon-like things for people who make things I enjoy and/or strongly believe should exist: Garbage Brain University, Octavius King, Pivot To AI, Master Hellish, and a few more but I forget.

    • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Which plan do you have? Is the Pro version better with “Email to note”?

      Curious because I used that in the past but stopped I don’t remember why.