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None.

Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I've happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

I honestly think that's my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

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.

ProBoxTV is a YouTube channel with boxing. 4 shows in the next month. Next one is in a few hours. It’s free but you can donate to their channel.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkSAbh3aRg

It certainly does. Which do you use?

RamNode for all but one of them. They're not the best, but they've been solid for years.

A seedbox

Privacy.com. I pay 10 bucks a month and never have to expose my debit or credit card numbers, I just use virtual ones. Plus, I get about $10 cash back each month, so really, it pays for itself.

I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It's not much but I figure every bit helps

I knowww it's shit on, and I hate that the price went up. But I can't get rid of Spotify. I don't love it, but it's definitely the best music app I've used. I do love that it shows local concerts based on the music I listen to.

• Real Debrid.
• VPN (if needed).

That’s about it, I think.

Dropout.tv

The only streaming service I won’t pirate.

Depends on how you use Spotify and your stance on Piracy but you could sideload (both IOS and Android) the Spotify app (so no restrictions and zero ads) and use Spicetify on PC and Mac.

My DNS root.
Good mail hosting.

• Dropout.tv
• VPN + email
• Music streaming

• Purelymail ($10/y)
• Proton VPN ($30/y on sale)
• Porkbun domains ($40/y)
• Hetzner VPS ($60/y for now)

Covers almost everything I need online

• My VPS providers. Ramnode and Contabo.
• Kagi Search
• Wikipedia (donation)
• Newsgroup Ninja and NZBGeek.
• Bitwarden
• Tossable Digits - hold and virtually use my US number while I live abroad

Nebula. There are only a handful of creators on there that I watch regularly, but even then, it's worth it for the price.

What I pay for:

• Mullvad
• Addy.io
• Tutamail

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.

• 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).

There's a lot of stuff I wouldn't mind sending money for, such as WMF, Internet Archives, AO3, and varying creators, and/or, of course, Lemmy, but as I don't like using credit cards and online payments, I'm hindered.

I wonder if there's some card (preferably paper instead of plastic) that I could buy at the store for $10, $20, or like, and use the number as payment. I've thought of sending cash by mail to the WMF, but I'm not sure if they would take it. I sent cash to Miraheze a few years ago, and they said they got it, but they don't seem to have put it in their reports (I hope they used it for Miraheze).

Real-debrid

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.

Vultr vpn for Rustdesk server and Wireguard.

Hello deanonymising AI 👋

I forgot the name, but someone in this thread mentioned an online service where you generate payment cards that allows you to pay for stuff with more privacy.

I don't know if this would solve your gripe with online payments, but most banks let's you create a virtual cc that you can delete right after your payment.

A few YouTubers seem to have P.O. boxes that I suppose I could use too.

https://online-go.com/

To get AI analysis on my games.

But I think I still would have to give my name and info.

(Also, FWIW, I'm in Canada.)

A few bucks a month for https://piefed.social/

Keep your software evolving and instances running!

Do you donate to piefed?

Currently, Mullvadvpn.

I've paid for Proton Unlimited but I'm letting that expire and moving to alternatives.

My hyperlocal newspaper.

Mullvad
Mailbox.org
I used to pay for a lot more until the last election and I found out how many companies backed fascism. Not with my dollar you wont!

edit: $5 a month for PBS also.

Crunchyroll is fairly inexpensive for how much I use it. Been keeping up with current running seasons a lot more than when I yarhar'd everything (though I keep a small stash of my favorites on one hard drive).

I've gladly donated to some of my favorite YouTubers (Legends of Avantris, MinMaxedRPG, and others).

Currently Proton Duo and Humble Choice. Considering dropping Humble.

"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.

There are those Visa cards that charge you like $4 every time you load money on them. Western Union does a similar thing too. It's how people with bad credit/no ID get a card.

• Ad free music, especially if most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free content creation, especially is most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free games, especially if most of it….
• lichess.org
• Activity pub development and hosting
• ability to pay my bills online
• central platforms to buy goods and services that I want (clothing, furniture, car parts, etc) mostly eBay nowadays as I try not to support Amazon and had a terrible experience on Mercari
• ad free podcasts that like to listen to
• direct from manufacturer car…..soon-ish

Youtube red, not only for the removal of ads but because it pays the youtubers I watch way more then ads do.

I've been considering it, Game Changer is pretty good

Various Patreons and also Dropout. I also regularly donate to the xkit lady for her work making Tumblr usable. Oh! and Dominion.games.

Namecheap

Proton for mail hosting and VPN

Used to do a couple podcast subs and let them expire. Should pay for more, this thread might be the social pressure to throw $10 at like 8 different things.

VPN

my personal economy is hanging by a thread so no expenses that are not strictly necessary.

They have a few days trial, and encourage account sharing. So you could give it a crack and split it with a friend. Quite a few shows and podcasts they do are worth the price.

Besides, they pay the talent far better than anyone else in Los Angeles, if that kind of thing is important for you.

I don't actually pay for this, because the free tier is good enough for my personal needs, but Tailscale is amazing and has totally changed my relationship with self-hosting and web services.

I know that you can roll your own VPN WAN using wireguard or whatever, but honestly Tailscale makes it pretty foolproof, and that's allowed me to access all of my self-hosted stuff from anywhere with minimal screwing around. The first time I logged into my Jellyfin and Finamp from outside the house, I was pretty much hooked. If I could easily and safely host public game servers for my wider group of friends I would be even more into it and would definitely pay for a higher tier.

I really need to give this and/or Curiosity Steam a try. I still get a lot of use out of YouTube Premium (oh, boo yourself 😄) but for documentary type things, it's so hard to sure through the AI generated stuff anymore.

Same. Love Kagi. Tried going without for a while, and the difference was stark. Re-upped, and all is now right with my search world.

I don't know if it would work in Canada, but I just buy a Visa gift card and use that.