I know it's the title but I dislike clickbait.
I know it’s not just me who is suddenly living life as a smooth-brained subscriber. The average consumer spends $273 per month on subscriptions, according to a 2021 poll of 2,500 by digital services firm West Monroe, which found this spending was up 15 percent from 2018. Not a single person polled knew what his actual monthly spending was.
I only spend $17.38 a month on subscriptions. But that's because I share many family plans.
I have rent, utility bills and stuff which total about C$2250 (1650 US) a month, then add food. The only other thing I have is Amazon for C$5.64/month (4.10 US) which I'm watching closely for them to raise the price on me. Everything else I pre-pay for between 6 to 24 months and never set to autopay. I used to have Mullvad VPN but I've let it lapse these last few months for now.
Idk if the article only considers the latter (5-20 dollars a month type of) subscriptions, or if it includes the subscriptions to keep me from being hungry, jobless and homeless, hahaha...
Yeah, I do, I'm spending zero. When a site pops up a 'SUBSCRIBE', I click on my site-block extension. It's like a filter for all the bogus crap out there.
(100€/month for power)
(0€/month, soon 16.80€/month, in a few months 64.99€/month for internet)
(And hopefully soon 100€/month for fiber for my servers)
(700€/month for rent)
≤ 50€/year for domains
~3.5€/month for 1TB Hetzner StorageBox
35€/month for Twitch Subs
5€/month for @[email protected]'s Ko-fi (that broke, but cute, nerdie and headpet-worthy, bastard)
10€/month as donation to Signal
10€/month for kagi, though a selfhosted searxng or similar is interesting
2*58€/month for Deutschland Tickets (unlimited local public passenger transport)
So, soon ~1080€/month for more or less life necessities, 7.5€/month for useful subscriptions, 10€/month for replaceable subscriptions, 10€/month as donations but 40€/month for subscriptions where a substantial part goes to Amazon.
:)
Funny thing I noticed when I got into higher level IT and started purchasing.
Two different companies, both very different in business practices. BOTH hated the idea of subscriptions.
"Yo, boss, check this requisition for $30/mo."
No.
"Yo, boss, check this requisition for a onetime $3,000."
Signed having barely looked at it.
Having said that, our AWS spend is stunning. $6M/yr. for ALL our software needs. But still, they're hesitant to add more and my mission now is to dial it in.
I don't have any subscriptions...
Closest I have is geoguessr which I prepay with giftcards.
The only subscription I have is Spotify.
PIRACY WILL NEVER DIE
At the moment: $0
Yarr
Already do..
What is a piracy subscription?
Stuff
Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.
Expect use of strong language.
Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.
No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.
Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.
New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.
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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:
Some other useful links:
Louis Rossman's YouTube channel
Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense: