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Clutter-free and cost-effective service subscriptions? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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What are your thoughts on finding a good level of subscriptions for online services, such as storage, photo backup, music streaming, video streaming?

Personal situation: I don't want a ton of subscriptions. I take lots of photos. I listen to music quite a bit. I live in a household that has Android, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Linux, ... and a Synology NAS that is already filling up with old music and video stuff from before streaming, phone photo backups as well as the photos from the big camera (manually copied so far). I currently pay for two cloud storage thingies and have to free ones, 3/4 are full :P We also have Spotify Family and cut down to only (HBO) Max and public service for video plus sometimes getting something specific for a month or two.

Any experiences or other observations welcome as well!

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can get everything under one brand with google.

Drive Photos Yt Music Yt tv

It’s designed to be device agnostic.

You can also do most of this with your Synology

[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do they have any bundle offers like Apple One? It really adds up quickly. I’m honestly hoping for some Black Friday deals that reduce the cost for whatever I end up choosing.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

No bundles necessary. All services are free. You just pay to add more storage. $2/mo for 100GB.

If you don't care about privacy and are okay with financially supporting one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world in their perpetual quest to erase any semblance of privacy from society, it's a great option!

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You probably just need Google One and Youtube Premium, which includes Youtube Music Premium.

Of course, if you don’t care about YouTube Premium, you could instead get a family subscription to a different music streaming service - Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music are all leagues better than Youtube Music, in my opinion.

I don’t personally recommend Google for anything, to be clear.