neidu3What's an online service you happily pay for?
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.
DominusOfMegadeusSame. Love Kagi. Tried going without for a while, and the difference was stark. Re-upped, and all is now right with my search world.
DaveYes, 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.
tomiantYeah 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
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
They only credit for months you do no searches at all, if you do one you pay for the full month, but it’s a nice touch. Personally I can’t think of a situation where I’d do no searches in a month!
For something as important as search, paying $5 or $10 a month seems entirely reasonable to me. I’ve been a Kagi user ever since their unlimited plan dropped to $10 a month when they reached enough users that they could do that.
I see, I misread their site. Still, that seems very fair
Names heap also offer to hide your domain owner details from the public for fred
I’d be careful with Kagi: unfortunately, collecting your payment information and attaching it to an account is directly at odds with maintaining privacy on the internet. I used Kagi for a year and did enjoy the search, but ultimately didn’t renew due to privacy concerns.
They do have privacy pass, which claims to alleviate some of the privacy concerns, but then you lose all the customization functionality (my main use for Kagi) and there appear to be some issues with it (see this thread piefed.social/post/1204472).
JoeKroganProBoxTV 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.
ProBox TV Contender Series | NAJEE LOPEZ VS. MANUEL GALLEGOS | Kissimmee, Florida
- Dropout.tv
- VPN + email
- Music streaming
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞This. €6,95/mo and mine has rutorrent set so you can associate magnet links, so I click a magnet link in my browser and it gets sent to the box. It also has Emby on it, so I don’t have to download, I can stream right from the box.
Here’s a really interesting podcast that showed how bellingcat was able to deduce the identity of someone who had almost perfect opsec:
E3: The Notorious D.P.F.K.S. | Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Journalist Ida Herskind is working at a Danish newspaper when she comes across a story that stops her cold: it’s about a porn video that looks real — but isn’t. And the woman in it never consented. As Ida starts digging she discovers the top hit for this kind of material is a single site: MrDeepFakes.com. Determined to do something for the thousands of women targeted there, she teams up with Zakaria Hameed, an open-source intelligence specialist, and the team at the hot shot investigative outlet Bellingcat. Together, they set out to answer a question no one has cracked: who is Mr. Deepfakes, really? Featuring: Ida Herskind, Zakaria Hameed, Ross Higgins
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.
seathruI used privacy.com for years happily until one day they said they would freeze my account if I didn’t provide a lot of personal info. I let them keep it.
You have to pay now?
No they still do a free version. I paid to upgrade so I can use the cards in my Apple Wallet and get a few other features.
GreatWhiteBuffalo41My citi credit card used to do this free. Now I can’t find the option anywhere so I assume they killed it.
I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It’s not much but I figure every bit helps
svelteciderYour comment made me donate to them for the first time just now. Only $5 but it’s something, I guess.
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.
InfiniteGlitchDepends 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.
Just checking because a lot of people miss it but the big boon with having a paid account is that you can get very high quality streams (not sure if its 320kbps or lossless) but you need to find and set that in the settings because they don’t want people to use that obv and try to sneak hide it because of the way higher bandwidth- they also like to reset playback quality back to “normal” (=shit) every now and then, scumbags as they are.
whotookkarlCheck out qobuz, I switched from Spotify long ago and most of the same catalog was available often at better quality for the same subscription price, there was a tool to transfer likes/playlists/etc, non US based, and they pay artists a reasonable rate compared to others.
- Real Debrid.
- VPN (if needed).
That’s about it, I think.
Brave Little Hitachi WandI’ve been considering it, Game Changer is pretty good
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.
moondoggiePlus, when they raised their subscription price to pay for more shows, anyone who was already a member kept their original subscription price. They even gave folks a month or so to sign up and lock in the lower price. A lot of people love the channel so much they wanted to pay the higher price. It’s my favorite streaming service.
Oh, and about paying the talent: last year they did a profit share and anyone who earned money from Dropout got a cut. They pay people to come to auditions, so even those people got some of the profit sharing.
Dropout is the gold standard of streaming services.
Ah, bummer. Slightly put wrong and you called me out rightly.
My tld to be provided on a root. I was in the wrong mindset. Apologies!
I wasn’t meaning for it to be calling out so much as attempted humorous way of misunderstanding / literally interpreting your post 😅
I’m still not fully sure what you mean though. Does “root” mean VPS here (a system which you have root access to), and “tld” a domain name or even the DNS server for it?
Ah, no worries! It’s purely about DNS!
If you own a DNS zone you need to have that hosted somewhere in a datacenter.
So say you own example.com you need to have a server (but usually a more redundant setup) that is queried for everything regarding that: which ip(s) is www.example.com, where does the mail go, some other settings (time to live), all subdomains, text records (various purposes).
Bricked
smegNebula. There are only a handful of creators on there that I watch regularly, but even then, it’s worth it for the price.
anon6789I 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.
I initially got both when they had a curiosity steam/nebula annual bundle. I gotta say, some of the curiosity stream stuff is hit or miss for me. Some categories/genres have more/better documentaries than others. Overall it’s nice for when I just want to throw on something interesting while I eat. Nebula, I loved so much that when they stopped doing the bundle with curiosity stream I just got the lifetime nebula subscription so that I can always have it. Getting to download the videos for offline watching is super nice for long flights
Thank you for the input!
It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to do since the 2 services were bundled, but whenever I got bored with YouTube or whatever other streaming things I was using, I’d take a break and read a book from my backlog or play a video game and then forget to try them.
I just want longer content to put on in the background or while I do chores, I just don’t want it to be AI slop.
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.
Do you donate to piefed?
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.
Me too!
- Mullvad
- Addy.io
- Posteo
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.
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.).
Hahaha yeah I love that. What other VPN provider can boast “cash in an envelope” as a payment option for absolute privacy? I’m telling you these guys take privacy very seriously, I know first hand.
Well I’m not gonna lie, I envy your firsthand experience, lol. I’ve looked at jobs they have open from time to time, but alas, they generally either don’t fit my experience or are more aimed at candidates from Europe.
Ah, then it must have been my relevant experience that was lacking (I knew it was one of the two, lol).
durinnThere’s a lot of stuff I wouldn’t mind sending money for, such as WMF, Internet Archives, AO3, and varying creators, 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).