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Youtube red, not only for the removal of ads but because it pays the youtubers I watch way more then ads do.
There’s a lot of stuff I wouldn’t mind sending money for, such as WMF, Internet Archives, AO3, and varying creators, and/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).
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.
I donate $5 quarterly to Wikipedia. It’s not much but I figure every bit helps
- Ad free music, especially if most of it goes to the artist
- Ad free content creation, especially is most of it goes to the artist
- Ad free games, especially if most of it….
- lichess.org
- Activity pub development and hosting
- ability to pay my bills online
- central platforms to buy goods and services that I want (clothing, furniture, car parts, etc) mostly eBay nowadays as I try not to support Amazon and had a terrible experience on Mercari
- ad free podcasts that like to listen to
- direct from manufacturer car……soon-ish
A few bucks a month for https://piefed.social/
Keep your software evolving and instances running!
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.
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.
YouTube Premium
Did you know that when you start to skip forward on in-video sponsor messages it gives to a button that skips ahead to the end of the message?
My domain names and web/email server hosting.
Not having to worry about all the horrors one is subjected to when they depend on a free service for online presence, email, etc. is worth a great deal to me. Any free service can disappear or kick you off at a whim leaving you with nothing, social media sites and apps come and go (and/or enshittify) while as a consumer of a paid service you not only have a quality of service beyond freebies (privacy, no ads, what I want to put online is exactly what goes online unadulterated, people who want to find or contact me can always do so at my own site on my own terms) you also have consumer protections if things go wrong.
While I’m not self-hosting my web stuff on my own hardware, the host I use is a small business owned by an old friend and fellow hacker which means I’m not at the mercy of some faceless corporation’s TOS either. My host and I see eye-to-eye on what’s appropriate for me to put out there via her machinery, and she’s also not extrajudicially sharing my private crap with fascist government forces like the big tech monoliths and most free services do.
YouTube Premium.
I pay for this, and two other family members pay for two other services. Theirs have each blocked the other 2 of us… So what was once 3 of us buying 3 family plans has become just me doing it. And the second YouTube blocks them, I’m canceling it.
Dreamhost.
More than a decade ago they had a big fuck up where they accidentally charged tons of users multiple times when their contracts weren’t when finished. So one day I woke up and they’d taken a few hundred dollars from my account. That put me in the negatives.
When I called them, they verified my identity, and let me complain a little. (I’m not much of a complainer. But their customer service person was great.) They paid me back the charged amount, and asked how much I’d had in overdraft fees, and paid me that too. And they let my hosting plan date reset at that date for the year-long renewal. So they basically have me like 9 months on top of it.
Mind you, I wasn’t using much at the time. Just a few blogs and a podcast. So it’s not like they’re not making free money off of me. But they handled it so damn well. Didn’t even ask to see a bank statement about my overdraft fees. Just “and how much was that? Got it.” I’m sure it was just a case of cost and smart business… But fuck yeah, reward smart business.
