Which streaming services do you use?

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Which streaming services do you use?
I use: Netflix, Hulu/Disney+, Tubi, and Spotify.

None due to practical, ecological and ethical reasons. I prefer to download media in standard formats so it's local and playable everywhere.

None of the above.

None because I don't want to support evil corpos

Yay! Me too.

I used to watch Netflix a bit, because it was cheap and Mrs. ToughDiamond was already subscribing to it so I was able piggyback onto her subscription, until they tightened the rules about how many people you could share your account with. It was always annoying at the best of times. They kept auto-playing the "most popular" video as an ad when we were on the home page unless you scrolled down very quickly. I got round it by using an ad blocker, but the streaming tended to glitch (not because of the ad blocker but just because it was a browser or something), so we had to use their stupid "app" instead, and you can't ad-block an app. And I always felt at the mercy of their caprices about what they had available. One minute you're watching a series, then suddenly they remove it. Or you've been watching it in one country and then they won't let you watch it in another. Then there was the creepy feeling that Netflix was stalking us and keeping a data file on what we watched and when we watched it. Anyway we sacked Netflix in the end. One thing I did like about it was the picture quality though.

I also messed with Sky, which I suppose counts as a streaming service. The box had a hard disc recorder, but the recordings were locked into the one disc, and when the box broke down and we sent it for repairs they just trashed it and sent us a new box. Lost a lot of good stuff. I found a method on the Web for transferring the videos off the hard disc recorder onto a proper computer hard drive, but it looked very nerdy and precarious so I didn't bother, I just stopped using it.

I use YouTube but I never go to their website, I use Invidious, and I usually download the videos with YTDLP.exe and watch them offline. Otherwise it's all ads and tracking.

No streaming platforms.

At the moment, I have paramount due to the old nickelodeon catalogue which I watch sometimes when I'm feeling nostalgic ( Drake and Josh is still funny to this day)
I'm thinking of getting max because they are only just now launching in Australia. And I miss the old cartoon network shows.
I think that's it though, I dont make enough to subscribe to all these platforms even though I've got shows on all of them I'd like to watch, fortunately they still release on DVD.

Is YouTube a 'streaming platform'?

^ It's the video streaming site I use the most by several lots.

Shout out to HBO Max. I think they have great documentaries.

I mean I think my family has all of them (well all the mainstream ones) except for Netflix and Apple TV+ (and yet we have multiple Apple TVs) and yet 90% of the time, I'm watching stuff on Pluto TV or Tubi - both of which are free.

Getting tremedous mileage out of a "poor-man's Spotify":
- In Android, in NewPipe app, it allows downloads. For audio content, I download in 160kbps .opus - the highest sound quality offered.
- Syncthing app to sync those .opus over to Linux, in bulk
- Copy the files to a Raspberry Pi from the file browser (sftp/ssh). The Pi is acting as a poor man's file server (accepts password-protected smb and sftp clients on my LAN).
- File browse the files in the File browser, drag and drop to VLC. VLC can stream audio directly over sftp or smb. All my gadgets can similarly browse at least smb shares, even my iPad. They always have Bluetooth as well.
- Listen to the audio using decent Bluetooth Earbuds. VLC allows software-based grahical equalization (unlike Youtube/NewPipe), lifting up the bass end.

A Raspberry Pi + Bluetooth + VLC is an awesome combo for offline audio streaming!

None.

I just download all the music I want off YouTube. They keep changing their website to stop the downloading utilities from working, but they recover again. Spotify is all very well but they charge money don't they?