Zero for me. No Netflix or anything here, I’m not into subscription based services.

But if you do have subscription based services, what might be the better ones out there?

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    VPN, password manager, I think that’s it?

    Edit for reading comprehension: Mullvad, Dashlane. I’m sold on the former, open to ideas on the latter.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      11 days ago

      Huh? Password manager as a paid subscription service?

      I just use the goop between my ears to remember my passwords.

        • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          Write a story you will never forget about whatever service. Like ‘when h is Y and won I; I would rather die than use google as a service.’ = “1wouldratYerd1etYanusegoogleasaserv1ce.”

          I used to do that with Buying for bike shops where I had a bunch of accounts all over the place. I kept mental track of the starting key so that I knew my password rotation and history. I kept a hints book, but did not need it.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            11 days ago

            I could see that working. The great thing about password managers is that your codes are always intensely random and secure. The bad thing is that once you’re into them, it would take several hours of work to make them all into something a human can memorise.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          11 days ago

          Me too.

          Dihydrogen Monoxide + Sodium Ferrocyanide + Ferric Ammonium Sulfate = ❔

          I’m not even a fucking chemist LOL, nor is the answer to that question in any way related to my actual password, but I’ll give you an upvote if you can figure out what color that makes…

      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
        4·
        11 days ago

        You must not be using very strong passwords, then… Or somehow only have a few accounts.

        But given that every site out there requires an account to use these days that sounds dubious

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          11 days ago

          I memorized π to 50 decimal places and also the alphabet backwards at age 10. Neither are my passwords BTW, but yeah my passwords can be and indeed are cumbersome. But the harder it is to spell, the easier it is for me to remember, oddly enough.

          Once upon a time my password was my Windows 98 product key, 25 otherwise random characters. Yes that password has long since been retired.

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              11 days ago

              I guess my mind just can’t help it, I find the more complex the character sequence, the easier it is for me to remember. It only took me 5 minutes to learn the alphabet backwards at age 10.

              I’ve since found that I can memorize Microsoft 25 character product keys in like 30 seconds. I dunno, guess my memory banks just work differently than most… 🤷

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              10 days ago

              I don’t trust password managers from the start, it feels like sticking your password on a post-it note on your screen and hoping nobody else sees it.

              The only difference is waiting to see if hackers manage to hack your password manager, then they have all the keys…

          • ji59@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
            1·
            11 days ago

            I usually use randomly generated passwords of the maximal supported length (or the maximum 100). I would definitely forget even one of these. Password Manager has also great auto-fill feature for fast and simple login in browser or PC or phone apps, and automatically copies 2FA codes.

    • aloofPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I find that KeePassXC works great for if you don’t mind not being able to sync passwords that easily. You don’t have to pay a subscription for it.