Library membership

Electricity has been a pretty good subscription. Zero sales or promos ever though.

VPN

Nebula is pretty cool, though I have the lifetime pass. Or patreon.

Health insurance, if you can afford it

Kagi is a great search engine that I've found to be worth paying for.

Internet and/or phone service.

Dropout is one I enjoy and they do profit sharing internally, which is nice to see.

I'm happy to give Qobuz my money for providing an excellent music library and be the best paying streaming service for the musicians that I listen to.

Judging based on what I'm actually paying for myself I'd say Mullvad VPN, Protonmail and a nameless AI assistant.

Edit: I forgot I've got a website too, so hosting of that is another one.

Internet, the shit show is 24/7 no need to pay more for anything.

A good VPN that values privacy is a pretty easy answer

Random one, but I get a lot of use out of a boardgamesarena premium membership. I've got a few mates that I can't see IRL as much any more, so it's nice to be able to jump on a video call and play some board games. Only one in the group needs a membership to unlock all the games and it's about £30 for the year. Easily better value than a few hours in a pub

I have other subscriptions I find varying levels of useful for me, but hard to argue for many of them being particularly good value.

Mullvad, and a strong internet connection from the spyware company of your choice. With that you can pirate any media, and browse the internet. I have never needed more.

Email, Nebula, Dropout, Borgbase, a domain name.

I also have humble choice, but that's a bit of a tossup. I've found some great games through it that I still play, but most months it still feels worth it to me

Edit: Forgot Mullvad VPN! Love that thing, 15/10 would recommend. Reddit doesn't like it, but also I don't like reddit so whatever

Mobile data.

The only thing I pay a monthly subscription for is domain/web hosting and medication

Libro.fm - Audiobooks but (unlike Audible) you can download drm-free audio files to listen however you want.

PBS Passport. Support your local PBS station

NextDNS.
This way, you can very easily filter out most of the ads on your mobile devices.

If you want to, you can also play this game on hard mode, and start blocking telemetry more aggressively. It can be done, but various apps will stop working. When that happens, you'll unlock a fun new mini game: DNS White List Tuning.

Online backup. Because it will happen, eventually.

Dropout, Revolut, power and water

Costco, Credit cards (assuming you can get your moneys worth).

On the nerdier side, Nabu casa, VPS.

And on the mundane, internet.

Subscription-based services are in general worth the money, if

1. you can cancel the subscription any time
2. you use it, because you actually want it
3. you know exactly what you get out of it

E.g. it doesn't matter shit how much content on Netflix is terrible, if I use it for one month precisely for that one new show, a new season or a few movies I'm interested - just about anything that makes up an actual reason to starting the subscription.

YNAB

Housing, transportation, internet, electricity, water and a VPN if your country doesn't let you pirate without it.

Everything else is either superfluous or you can pirate it.

Seedbox. I've had mine for over 10 years and I'm still paying the same $15/month, so it's effectively gotten cheaper, and they've actually upgraded me at least twice in that time to give me more storage & bandwidth.

None. Other routes or methods exist for just out everything. Knowledge, services etc. stop buying into this concept created to part you with money. We did years with subscriptions not being a thing.

Take the slightly harder path and keep your money in your pocket. Learn how to get what you want without further enabling big tech and the greedy class. Sorry probs not the answer you want.

Only decent one is as above VPN!

Kagi, next DNS, mullvad

I actually pay for quite a few digital service subscriptions. Off the top my head: Proton (email/VPN), Mega (storage), Kagi (search engine), Inoreader (feed aggregator), Signal (both voluntary donation and for online backup), Audible (audiobooks), Reuters (news), a few newspapers and magazines (online editions), some apps, …

The only extra subscriptions I have are a VPN while I'm at school, a domain name for my portfolio, and one game that is the main place I interact with my friends. Also have a slightly larger Google drive until I can afford to make my own NAS.

Honestly, I don't see the need for much more. Costco is great if you live near one (they are one of the few decent companies left). Server hosting for games is another one I've done in the past.

Adobe used to be manageable a decade ago, especially if you were sharing the cost. Same with Game Pass when it came out. Now the prices for both are absurd. Streaming has been replaced by the high seas.

Grocery delivery

Electricity

Water

So I pay monthly for a few streaming services, those are rarely worth the money, although Qobuz is pretty close. I could pirate my music or buy CDs and rip them, but that would be a huge hassle and expensive for the CD route as I like to listen to a lot of random artists.

Other services I pay monthly for that I think are good value are the National Trust and the RSPB. National Trust is particularly good value if you like looking at gardens/old houses, you save a fortune. RSPB works for me as I have two on my door step and just the car parking alone is almost the cost is the cost of the months membership.

None, you should but outright not lease forever with the chance of removing features or content.

If you like movies, I've been enjoying AMC Stubs A-List, been going to more movies with the gf, screen unseen is fun if you have nothing specific you want to see. And we keep costs down by sneaking food in.