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Definitely gonna get normie-shamed by some of you guys, but we've got:
Spotify premium (family logins shared with sister and parents, so I'm sort of stuck with it)
Amazon Prime (all our photos are in their Unlimited photo storage - it just works and links in with our firestick seamlessly so that the fam can actually look back at the photos easily)
Express VPN (got it for privacy, stayed for the porn which is blocked in the UK)
Audible (forgot to cancel)
YouTube premium (have actually just cancelled now that I can use the Albanian VPN trick)
Starlink (hate Elon, but live rurally so no choice)
Finally, IPTV which is illegal and £80 a year but gives me everything.
Spotify: I switched my whole family to Tidal. It's cheaper for a family of four, you can migrate your playlists and such, music quality is better, and they aren't a shitty company. Plus one free month to try it before they bill you.
I had to find a different podcast app though. That was a pain.
Try YouTube Revanced if you're on mobile, removes ads and gives you a bunch of nice features as a bonus
Man, they love people like you.
Out of curiosity, what would you recommend?
Spotify costs very little and is installed in 3 separate households, but if you've an alternative then I'd delighted to hear it.
Amazon prime photos just works. I've a Synology NAS that I was using with Plex but it's clunky AF. We've got firesticks simply to access our IPTV, but it also means we can view those photos easily.
Starlink - there's literally no alternative where I live.
YouTube - had premium, but through an Indian address so cost me £2.99 per month.
Audible - no justification, just a subscription to a service we used.
I don't think you need to justify your purchases to anyone.
And I think most of the answer is probably who frequent !selfhosted@lemmy.world so if you're interested take a look at that
Meh, probably. I've also got a couple of Alexa's. Honestly couldn't give a fuck at this point.
Idk how much expressVPN costs, but there are almost certainly cheaper options
Any suggestions? ExpressVPN works pretty well on all my devices, but I'm open to alternatives
seconding mullvad, windscribe is what I personally use as its very cheap but mullvad is better
Mullvad is a great VPN option