Shill your favorite product and service. MLMs and corporate representatives need not comment.

  • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip
    3·
    5 hours ago
    • Kagi Search - I prefer Kagi to avoid misaligned incentives, and it aggregates all major indexes plus their small web index, which is great, so I never miss a result.
    • Windscribe VPN - This is a fucking need for me.
    • addy.io - It’s just $12/year and gives me great comfort.
  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Right now the only thing I have a subscription for, as a college student fortunate enough to be living at home, is Proton. Don’t like the whole Lumo AI thing and don’t really trust they ain’t scraping all my data for it, but I still have months before my subscription ends.

    The VPN is nice enough and the attached email is kinda cool, I guess. Definitely been making use of both, so no complaints for now.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Got any suggestions on hosting that’s not squarespace or otherwise ridiculously expensive? just need a simple site and some links… already own the domain

  • Astrius@lemmy.ml
    34·
    5 hours ago

    Apple One Premier bundle and YouTube Premium are the two subscriptions I deem essential in my life. I wouldn’t say I shill for them, but I definitely do think they’re essential for me.

    Apple One Premier has:

    Apple TV (I use a lot)

    Apple Music (I use a lot)

    Apple Fitness+ (I use moderately)

    Apple News+ (I use a lot)

    Apple Arcade (I use moderately)

    2TB of iCloud Storage (I use a lot)

    Optional Peacock reduced subscription fee (I don’t use)

    All of it is sharable with 5-6 Apple family members too.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    512·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      8·
      12 hours ago

      Yes, 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.

      • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        Yeah 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

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          1·
          12 hours ago

          You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.

  • CorvusCornix@piefed.socialEnglish
    40·
    16 hours ago

    What I pay for:

    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.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      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, they are TRON as far as I’m concerned, they fight for the user!