Services

I despise advertising as the primary form of commercialization for services. And I don't want to keep too many subscriptions and actively avoid them when I can. But I'll much rather pay for the services that I need rather than be subjected to advertisements.

NextDNS

• NextDNS

Productivity

• Google Calendar

  • Proprietary
  • Ad-ware

• Todoist

  • Proprietary
  • Subscription-ware

Media

• Audible

  Warning

  Audible is a subsidiary of Amazon.¹

  Audible is only used for exclusives.

  eBooks and audiobooks are sold by Amazon with DRM. Buy directly from publisher and your local bookstore when possible!

  Tip

  Archive your Audible library in a DRM-free format. See rmcrackan/Libation.

• Libby

  Warning

  Libby is a product of OverDrive, which is owned by Rakuten.

• Pocket Casts

  • Proprietary
  • Subscription-ware

  Having purchased the iOS and web app early on, I'm grandfathered into its lifetime plan⁴. I do not think that Pocket Casts is worth it at its current subscription price. Instead, I recommend Apple Podcast, Overcast, or Audiobookshelf.

Proton

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• ProtonMail

  Warning

  Email is an insecure form of communication by design. ²

• Proton VPN

  I use ProtonVPN purely for P2P traffic as it's one of the few VPN services that supports port forwarding.

  Danger

  VPNs do not provide anonymity.³

• ProtonDrive
• SimpleLogin

Homepage

Cloudflare

• Cloudflare Domain Registar
• Cloudflare DNS
• Cloudflare R2
• Cloudflare Workers
• Cloudflare Pages
• Cloudflare Zero Trust

Homepage

Postmark

• Postmark

I mainly need transactional email for self-hosted apps, which send a very low volume. Postmark's free plan has been perfect for this.

Homepage

Steam

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Homepage

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1. Richard Stallman: Reasons not to buy from Amazon ↩

2. Privacy Guides: Email is an insecure form of communication by default ↩

3. Privacy Guides: VPN Overview ↩

4. Lifetime Access To Pocket Casts Plus ↩