What streaming services do you pay for?

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.
Have you tried ViMusic?

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.

I only have YouTube Premium because it’s convenient to download and watch things on mobile devices. I torrent and use adblocker and yt-dlp on my PC, but it’s just easier to have for my phone so I can download things for work or whatever.

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 will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s (...)
I take it as a personal insult, and wish you to step barefoot on a Lego!
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?
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

A good quality usenet server.

I have been trying to get into Usenet. Which server and indexers are you using?
- Basically you want one primary usenet service, doesn’t really matter what (they all have pros and cons but for a normal users they’re basically the same), and another secondary service on a separate backbone (see https://whatsmyuse.net) to get good coverage without being hurt too hard by takedowns.
  It’s kinda not cool in the usenet world to recommend specific services because there’s so much shilling going on. I’ll tell you what I use but please don’t take it as a specific recommendation. No affiliation with any of these.
  For indexers I use nzb.su and drunkenslug. The former seems to have better coverage but the latter is faster. I hear nzbfinder is good too.
  I use frugalusenet but only cos I got a deal that makes it $34/year. It comes with a free secondary block account on a second backbone so it’s kinda helpful in that way. But overall coverage isn’t as good as two well chosen providers. They often post good deals to Reddit/etc so keep your eyes open for a good one (Black Friday is a good time)

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.

This is the way.
I’ve never heard of this, and it seems like something I’d love to try!
I have a GSA, but I have no idea what to do with it. It’s been flashed with non-Google BIOS stuff I guess? I suppose I’ll try to figure out UNRAID and pop Jellyfin on it somehow!

If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.

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.
- 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
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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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?

None, cancelled Netflix when they started fucking around with the single household requirement.

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.

I use the whole proton suite and love it so much. If you didn't know, depending on your subscription you also have access to premium features on SimpleLogin
- Oh wow, never heard of Simple Login. Thank you!
I'm currently using Proton Suite. Proton pass (password manager) was just released and doesn't work for me for whatever reason but everything else is top notch 👌🏼 Would highly recommend
- For password manager, I swear by Bitwarden. It's open source, has a self hosted option, and 100% usable for free. They have a very cheap subscription option for some not too vital features (most particularly support for using Bitwarden as your TOTP app and encrypted file sharing).
- It doesn't work meaning you can't get access to the app past login? it's still im beta and only Visionary and very long time Unlimited users have access for now

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. 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

My thoughts exactly! 💯 now using only VPN and using torrent trackers + little bit of YouTube to watch stuff.
This is the way

None

Mullvad.

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.

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, 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.

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.

Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.

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

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.

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 pay for nordvpn and the electric cost of my server fuck Netflix and Hulu and all that

Deezer so that I can use Deemix to download .flac from their library

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).

Can I ask why you hate Spotify? Is there a problem with their service or is it more about how they treat artists?
- Besides promoting Joe Rogan during the height of the pandemic when he was on a real stream of misinformation about COVID? Yeah it's mostly how they treat artists they're just like YouTube (and Tidal for that matter) where they claim to care about artists but there's no way anyone but the top 1% is actually making living wage money from streaming. I just use Tidal cause pirating music took up too much storage for me and it makes music discovery a little more convenient.

Amazon Prime because of free & faster deliveries
Hotstar due to live cricket & oneFC events
Spotify

Honestly, Spotify is probably at the top of my "pirate if possible" list. I've been a guest performer on a couple of tracks and seen some backend stuff, and let me tell you, the only people you're depriving of income are the ones who are already wealthy giants. Spotify robs the rest of them blind already.
You wanna know what 50k listens to a song totals out to for someone who isn't a huge name? $50.
- Alright but Spotify is one of the very few subscriptions that are actually easier than pirating. As long as you have a family plan, it is great value for money.
  I don't know of a good way to support artists outside of direct transactions.
- If you can afford it: Listen to them on spotify if it's the most convinient product + then support your favorite artists in other ways (eg. Order merch from their website, see them live, twitch, patreon).

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.

YouTube music ReVanced exist. I also use xManager for Spotify.

Apple Music, music is the only media that I just can't pirate.

- Apple Music is different because it uses ALAC not FLAC which actually sounds better, definitely a must-have service.
  That's only because Apple marketing makes you believe this. They are both lossless, up to 32 bits/sample and very high sample rates (FLAC allows even higher ones than ALAC afaik). The only "advantage" of ALAC is Apple ecosystem compatibility but that's only for them to lock you in and make it harder for you to migrate.
  It could sound better if they - for whatever reason - had access to better recordings, but that still doesn't have anything to do with the codec.
Apple music also pays more per stream than most of the other streaming services. Or at least it did the last time I checked.

Mullvad VPN AB's new streaming services, great selection, good speed, and low prices.

Too many.. Netflix, Apple TV, HBO max, Disney plus, prime video… and the amount of times I need to pirate stuff is still increasing. If this gets any worse, and it probably will, I will cancel most or all of my subscriptions.

None at the moment, used to have a Netflix subscription but not even that now.

Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.

Netflix DVD lol. Gotta feed the Plex server. Wife has Hulu though, mostly for background noise of long going shows. (NCIS, Buffy, Bob's burgers,etc)

What are you gonna do when Netflix DVD ends in September? Is there another service that’s comparable?
- Dig into Redbox I suppose. It was a rough morning when I got that news haha.

Netflix and Spotify. I share both with family.

🤣

None.

Youtube Premium, Spotify, and Amazon Prime.

Netflix with a friend.
Netflix on my own after I had no interest in watching more but my friend did. He kept the account, I made a new one later on.
Netflix + Prime. Watched very little on Prime. A bit on Netflix.
Plex + Netflix/Prime. Started with a Raspi4 4gb running plex in docker
Jellyfin + Netflix/Prime
Jellyfin + Netflix. Ordered too much...
Only Jellyfin

A timeline that shows how charging for inconvenience just drives us back to piracy.

None, selfhosted is the way.

In my country India, I pay for

Amazon Prime - ₹1500 per year Netflix - ₹200 per month (total is like ₹800 but 4 people share it).

What's a streaming service

Spotify and Dropout.tv

Oh shit, it's me.

Mullvad, and I'm addicted to buying hard disks and SSDs, never got subscriptions btw, I can just pirate

Only youtube premium. Used to pay for curiositystream as well, buf not anymore.

How was Curiosity Stream?
- You didnt ask me, but Ill answer lol. After 1 year sub I wanted to cancel, but forgot, so Im in the 2nd year now kekw. I like documentaries, but this is not good enough for me to pay. 70% documentaries I watch I get elswhere anyway

i do use a couple streaming services, but i don't pay for any of them. i do pay for a vpn usually, but i am currently between such services. i think my partner pays for spotify.

YouTube. I more than get my money’s worth from it.

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+

ChatGPT, Midjourney, Copilot and Spotify. Considering swapping Spotify for YouTube.

Edit: forgot usenet, and some indexers.

Depending on how much you use ChatGPT, the API might be a better option. For me at least I'm spending about $3 a month using their API, while the ChatGPT subscription is.... $23.80/m.
- That's a good point. I do like the history though.

Hulu, Peacock both had blackfriday deals. Amazon Prime of course...but for some reason I still have Netflix, gotta ditch that shit.

Amazon Prime of course? That's the worst one in my opinion
- True, though between my wife and I, we do to much of our shopping on there. Which I know is WORSE. Love to ditch that too but that is gonna be a slower progress to ditching then Netflix. Their history of cancelling shows and prices hikes makes it easier.

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! My internet connection is slow so streaming is just not an option. Downloading content beforehand is the only way for me to watch anything over 480p without buffering.

My girlfriend pays Netflix but I still download from torrent even netflix contents because the quality is better and the player I use is way better too.

What player do you use?
- Smplayer

Wow and here I thought I've spent too much on subscriptions!

Plex lifetime pass (through Turkey)
Whatever close to 100% cashback VPN provider, currently with PIA
Seedbox, paid annually
Prime for shipping occasionally, I can find the torrent for the shows elsewhere so rarely use it to watch anything

I don't use Youtube often, so NewPipe on mobile and uBlock Origin on browsers are sufficient so far. XManager for Spotify as well.

May consider paying for Tidal (through Turkey), but don't really see the need at the moment.

Why do people pay for common streaming subscriptions when they can just pirate?

Streaming service? None.

Disney Plus. I can share it with my out-of-state parents with no trouble. And it's such a great way to watch The Simpsons constantly in the background.

Since Netflix went bonkers and I had to cancel it, D+ is my go-to app. Hopefully they don't go stupid like Netflix, too.

they sure will. but as they are pretty new in the game we have few sears left.

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.

YouTube music but only because I got it work via VPN to Argentina for a cheap sub. Same goes for Netflix but via Turkey.

Disney+ is cheap via a voucher on a VPN too, but expires soon. However, just renewed my phone contact which comes with Disney free for 3 months. This phone provider also got me Duolingo free for 3 months.

Phone provider is O2.

Torrent everything else.

Did have Amazon but video content was lacking really... Though really missing the free delivery, so may sub again.

I have quite a few, as I find streaming services in general to be very much worth my money and to be very convenient. It's when stuff isn't on any streaming site where I personally consider piracy acceptable. While I dislike the fragmentation of streaming services, I will pay for whatever streaming service the content I want to watch is on. I do want to support things I enjoy so long as the price is reasonable, and streaming service prices are all reasonable in my book.

Youtube Music - I switched from Spotify ages ago due to content it didn't have at the time, but may no longer apply. I recently upgraded to Youtube Premium because I've started using Youtube more often and detest ads.
Disney+ - I've found that here in Canada, D+ is the best streaming service in terms of quantity of content. We basically get all or most of what is on Hulu in the US.
Crave - In Canada, this is basically how you get HBO content. I subscribed to watch The Last of Us and have been sticking around to watch older HBO shows too.
Amazon Prime - This is mostly for the shipping. The fact I get some shows out of this is a bonus. It has fewer shows that I care about.
Nintendo Premium - For multiplayer and also some DLCs that got included with it. I find this to be the lowest value of the subscriptions I have, especially since I rotate what consoles I'm using and am strongly considering canceling it.
Dropbox - offsite backup is important and I don't want to manage it myself (nor have the risk that comes with that).
Some random Patreons and most recently lemm.ee's equivalent.

I'm not currently subscribed to Netflix because I regularly rotate what streaming service I'm subscribed to. When I'm done with what I'm watching on Crave and/or Disney+, I'll unsubscribe to those and maybe resubscribe to Netflix. Rinse and repeat. In the past, I've also used Paramount+ (worst streaming app I've ever used), Dropout (I subscribed for Game Changer and stuck around because of Dimension 20, but haven't had the time, so unsubscribed for now), and Ubisoft+ (I did the math and concluded it was better to subscribe for 2 months to play Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla than to buy the full games with all their DLC -- I'll totally do it again next time they have a newer release I wanna play).

I make good money and really have no concerns with paying for all these. A couple dozen bucks a month for entertainment is nothing for me and highly worth it, especially to avoid any wrangling with finding and acquiring content. I also feel strongly about wanting to pay any reasonable amount for things I enjoy. To me, piracy is almost entirely about access and not about price. Heck, these days, most piracy I've done is for older games that you literally cannot find legitimately anymore.

mullvad for movies, and spotify for music.

Curiosity Stream, Nebula, Tidal, Soundcloud, Spotify, Prime, and a Plex share basically.

Brw why you need both Spotify and tidal

Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), Plex, Max, Spotify, and Prime. Sometimes Apple TV. And Sling for NFL Red Zone in the fall

Only for NFLX for the last decade or so, I would had cancelled that subscription years ago, but the guys I share my account with insist in keeping that Netflix account.

I have absolutely no idea why. I haven't watched Netflix in years myself. Well I pay 10 bucks a month for Netflix and the other guys are paying me 12 bucks a month, so this useless subscription costs me -2 bucks every month.

For me pirating is more convenient than watching the very same stuff on Netflix, especially since Netflix stopped working on some of my devices...

I pay for nordvpn and the electric cost of my server fuck Netflix and Hulu and all that

Only spotify premium

But even that can be pirated
- True, but if some people don’t pirate just for free stuff, they do because the paid alternatives are either non existent or of poor quality.
  Spotify gives you a really huge library of music to stream with easy to use good quality apps across pretty much everything all without the need of juggling dozens of other subscriptions and jumping through hoops for regional access etc

Netflix through T-Mobile, Real-Debrid (plex), and Amazon Prime.

Only thing I actually use though is Real-Debrid. Got Plex truly automated so I just use that for everything including music.

What do you use to automate music downloads?
- I just use Lidarr. Use to do spotify so I linked that onto lidarr and then let it do its thing.

Spotify and MUBI only

Crunchyroll, Disney +.

Thinking about trying YouTube premium

- Well I’m from india so I probably have the cheapest sub

Personally I’m only paying for Spotify (while working away in the background to build my own collection) and Kayo, which is an Australian sports service. There is a little bit of fragmentation for sport in Australia but I’ve been lucky with Kayo as they’ve picked up stuff I was paying for elsewhere and it’s become better value over the time I’ve been subscribed.

Netflix is the only major one I’ve ever really paid for and their password gimmick was the straw that broke that for me.

Youtube premium, Netflix and Amazon prime.

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.

Bandcamp. People don't really consider it a streaming service but I've used it a ton to stream my music purchases from their website & Android app. (also have all the music downloaded on my main storage at home)

I shift it around depending on what's currently "in season." Right now I have Netflix because of the 3rd season of I Think You Should Leave. But I've watched it all a billion times already so I'm not going to renew until something else comes out.

Me: Sling, Disney+, HBO Max
My Wife: Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime

Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Shudder.

I also pay content creators for a ton of podcasts and stuff like that.

Real Debrid

I've tended not to directly pay for services, but password share with family where we each pay for a service. So I've had Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, and Amazon but only was paying for Netflix (obviously Netflix killed this). I also pay for Spotify, and have the unlimited regal pass (I live a few minutes from our local theater and go pretty often)

So given this, I feel zero remorse for pirating and data hoarding as much media as the internet can give me, as I feel like I'm already paying quite a bit for media.

CrunchyRoll because it's cheap and convenient. Pro tip: sign up through a roku for a longer free trial and cheaper sub.

I pay for Netflix, but only the ad-supported tier now. My wife uses it to discover new shows, then I download copies of it for my Plex media library.

Amazon prime and YouTube Premium Family.

Amazon prime and Spotify.

Our friend was sharing Netflix with us but once the stuff with the household came around he cancelled his account. Now him and I both have Synology NAS and Plex set up to share all our downloaded stuff with friends and family. Oh yeah and another friend shares Disney+ with us. I also paid for a cheap year of Shudder last October so I still have that. I also got cheap YouTube premium using a vpn.

I dont exactly pay for a "streaming" service. I do pay for RD and Mega (part of the forum). This has me covered for practically anything I could ever need.

What are these?
- undefined> dude RD is realdebrid. It's a service that caches torrents and allows one to technically stream the file (video) if you want (works with stremio, kodi, etc.). You can look it up online and read more on it. Mega on the other hand is a a cloud storage place. I pay for it cause I download a lot from a forum im part of that uses it.
++ for realdebrid

Netflix, Amazon, f1tv

YouTubeTV and Netflix

Netflix, Amazon prime.

Spotify. The rest I just piggy back off me and my wife’s families lol

Netflix.

YouTube, Netflix

Currently, none. I used to use Netflix, Prime video and Spotify, but when they started removing some of my favorite content I went fully local.

I used to have Netflix until I moved country and they blocked me out of my own account. Fuck them, cancelled. To the seas with their content.

Only Apple Music, and only because it's ever so slightly more convenient for me than not paying for it. Plus, I enjoy discovering new music while I'm out on a long walk.

None, I used to pay for Plex Pass but with the last removed I bought the life pass

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.

Qobuz.

Deezer and CuriosityStream

I've been subscribed to Nebula since maybe not day one but day two or three. Good place

Spotify with free Hulu, Prime, Criterion Collection

Spotify and Amazon prime, prime is not only for streaming ofcourse

Spotify, yttv during football season, premiumize and syncler for everything else

None (yet), although having everything available through my siblings (Netflix, Disney, prime, hbo and sky).

Despite that still have to pirate some movies and TV shows lol.

Spotify, only because they still got everything I need and I don‘t want to bother with building my own music library. If they enshittify the service enough, I‘ll ditch that too though.

Spotify. The convenience is unbeatable.

And nothing else. Don't feel like I need to have any other services. They are all "nice to have". I don't really have much time to watch anything these days so paying a fixed amount to watch perhaps one season per month seems wasteful.

Spotify and Netflix. Since they are so far the only platforms that stick to streaming media and are not trying to take over the world. I guess HBO would be fine too.

HBO Max comes with my ISP's fiber plan, and I like that they get 4K releases relatively quick out of theater from certain studios. If they ever fuck with the pricing or bundle I'm on though, I'm outta there.

YouTube premium because I watch a lot of YouTube and don't want to deal with ads on platforms that are harder to adblock (Roku, for example) and I use YT music because it comes with it and I don't care enough about music to download it.

Twitch Turbo because I watch a ton of that as well and don't want to fight their ads.

Everything else I surf the high seas for, but I do have a few Usenet and Indexer memberships so the high seas aren't exactly free for me.

YouTube premium (india prices ftw) & Apple Music

YT Premium, Spotify, Prime (for free shipping), AppleTV+ and partner pays for Paramount+

Share a friend's account for Disney+ and another's for Stan (aussie streaming service). Fuck Netflix.

Just Netflix. Prime Video is included with Prime. Cancelled Disney+ when they announced a price hike because we weren't watching often enough to justify the price.

Nebula. I did have Spotify but got fed up with not being able to regulate its 'suggested content' list. It was mostly about podcasts for me so I now use a different podcast platform.

Netflix
Prime Video
Disney+
HBO Max
Sky Showtime
Apple TV+

Like most of people in here, I only pay for Tidal, while also having access to other platforms through friends or family.

I use Stremio + Torrentio/Real Debrid on my NVIDIA Shield. Haven't subscribed to streaming services in a couple of years. I do still pay for Spotify.

Honestly, none of them.

Spotify: listen through the browser using an ad-blocker. No adverts.

Netflix: shared password with my family.

Youtube Premium. I watch probably an unhealthy amount of YT a day, and listen to YT Music every day. Easily the best value subscription for me. Only one I actually feel like I get my money's worth.

Wowpresents+ to support drag race and Les Mills to be able to do their trainings.

My utilities.

The uncertainty of the future of shows I actually enjoy means I don't bother paying for any of that crap (I'd probably consider Shudder though). I run an Emby server with a ton of storage. I'm not going to pay a company to actively crater the content I actually want to watch. I did grab a Nebula/Curiosity Stream year-long sub at Christmas because it was heavily discounted. They're likely to get more money from me, because it's primarily creator driven and more (I think) of the revenue goes to the people who deserve it.

Moreover, the bulk of the crap isn't worth spending money on anyway. If I wasn't getting it for free, I just wouldn't consume it at all. Hell, half the stuff I download just sits there until I "get around to it." That list only grows, never shrinks.

Amazon Prime (because it comes with the service), and Netflix (until anyone on my account gets a "shared password" block, then I'm cancelling it).

Deezer for music, then I rotate monthly between HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount, Peacock, and Starz. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay all them at once, so all they get is 2 months a year each.

I have:

Netflix (included w/ phone plan)
Hulu + Disney + ESPN (bundle)
Shudder
CuriosityStream / Nebula
Spotify

Then I have my own personal Jellyfin server for everything else.

I have spotify. I like that they did something right, and any particular instance of music streaming you sign up for will have the same or similar music. There's none of this fucking exclusive shit. Fuck movie/tv companies. Music did it right. I don't have any other streaming and instead download my shit. Also, it's pretty convenient for $5.99 a month (for students) for nigh on unlimited music

Enough that I don't feel guilty seeking other ways to watch what I want when none of them have it.

A dedicated server + large cloud service to host my own Plex server for my family and friends.

just Spotify premium. the convenience combined with the fact that it comes out to like usd 3 per person just doesn't make pirating music worth it

The one streaming service I whole-heartedly recommend is dropout.tv. It’s the streaming incarnation of CollegeHumor and was bought out by Sam Reich after being cut from IAC. It’s only $6 a month (and less than $50 for the whole first year) and your subscription directly funds the content creators rather than some huge media conglomerate. It’s niche is basically improv/sketch comedy, game shows, and pop culture chats, plus a lot of DnD. It’s worth it for Game Changer alone which is the funniest game show, and maybe just one of the funniest shows, I’ve ever seen. Many of the Dimension 20 campaigns are amazing as well and Brennan is an excellent DM, in addition to having a great cast to work with.

If I sound like an ad it’s because I pay for basically none of the content I consume but couldn’t in good conscience pirate dropout since it’s independent, overall low-cost, and I enjoy what they make so much I wanted to support them. Rant over!

I paid once for Plex lifetime a long long time ago. One of the most worth things I've acquired in my life.

Mullvad.

Spotify, because I have a family plan for 4 users and it's a single reasonable cost instead of the 5-6 separate video streaming services I'd have to get

I pay for Disney+, Apple TV+, and Prime Video. I am on my brother's Netflix family account and my FIL's Spotify premium plan. If I could only have one, it would be Disney+ hands down. You get all of Disney's stuff, Star Wars, Fox (Simpsons, Futurama, X-files, etc.), Discovery, Marvel, Pixar and various stuff in between.

The streaming services I do pay for are mostly music, or smaller stuff I want to support.

Spotify
Roon (not really a streamingservice, but it lets me stream my music?)
Nebula
Youtube premium
Draken film (Swedish streaming service for art/independent film)

I'm thinking about grabbing a Deezer or Tidal as well, as they integrate very well with Roon

I currently have:

Spotify - ease-of-use, can use on mobile
Xbox Game Pass - although I don't use the streaming aspect of it
Netflix - shared with a spread-out family, although we already got the "one household" notice, so it's probably gonna be on my chopping block sooner or later

And mostly because I've already watched everything I wanted to watch on these, I've recently cut:

Hulu and Disney+
HBO Max

Amazon prime (not for streaming, just comes with it), Netflix (because TMobile pays most of it).

Personally pay for:

Crunchyroll
Hi-Dive (has some good picks that Crunchyroll doesn't, but for the most part simulcast selection is much smaller and inferior to Crunchyroll. Site and app functionality are also inferior)
Vudu - Also have bought/curated a large collection of movies/tv series on Vudu, with most of the Movies being shared to movies anywhere (wish there was a similar service for TV series).
TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast network club membership (free for most podcasts, but want to support the network)

Others in the family pay for in descending order of usage:

Youtube Premium (would still watch most without premium, just it's paid for already)
Netflix [strict instructions to never keep for me, cancel if they try to force it]
Hulu [primary for newer one punch man seasons, and upcoming new futurama season]
Prime [...for shopping, but you know, prime streaming is included]

Netflix, HBO and Disney+

Usenet! That's a streaming service, right?

Spotify, because its cheap, convenient, and more importantly makes sharing playlists with friends very easy because everyone else also uses spotify.

I get Apple TV and Netflix free through T-Mobile. I use plex for everything else 🙂 I might buy a shudder subscription though. I like horror

I pay for Netflix and YouTube, both thru Turkish VPN's for payment.

The TRY currency has only gone down since, paying less than $4 per month for 2-screen Netflix, $2.30 for YouTube Premium Family Plan.

Amazon Prime (with Paramount+ add on), SlingTV, and occasionally PBS Masterpiece

YouTube Premium, Hulu, Spotify. I pay for these family plans. My wife and I use two seats, and our closest friends are on them as well. In turn, we get their Prime Video, Audible, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. We all just split the cost.

none

-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.

For YouTube you can block ads with a better DNS setup with NextDNS or Adguard and UblockOrigin in the browser.

seedbox or vps(torrent) in a privacy/legal protected country may be a viable alternative for mainstream movie or tv shows.
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=country%20internet%20privacy%20law

Real Debrid

Only spotify premium

Can be pirated

Real Debrid