its not quite the same but as a YT-alt i use Nebula. It's owned by some of my favourite creators and pretty cheap considering what you get. (~36$/y)

instead of iCloud/GDrive i use pCloud - which is a one-time payment-which i prefer instead of a recurring subscription (otp/400$)

and technically i am paying for 'streaming-services' by having a VPN. (~3$/m)

if you listen to a lot of radio/music you should give radio.garden a try!

it not much, but it is a start.

In terms of money, nothing. In terms of time? Several hours per week using offline methods. Keep in mind, I don't own a phone at all, and only use my computer for an hour or 2 a day at most. I do as much as I can in person.

• Spotify -> Bandcamp. ~80% of the proceeds go to the artists, last I've heard. Also, FLAC downloads, and a streaming app.
• Gmail -> mailbox.org. It's a bit pricey at 2,50€/month, but that gets you 4(IIRC) family accounts at no additional costs and servers hosted in Germany. Email is the one service I'm gladly paying for. Tried hosting email myself once; it's horseshit.
• Whatsapp -> Signal (and Whatsapp, sigh). I donate 5€/month. This is money I consider well spent to keep Signal running.
• I once paid a hundred bucks for the big ol' Osmand+ update, back when I still had Google Play. Money well spent for a good project.
• Some Github sponsoring here and there, mostly for Android bread 'n' butter apps, such as a PDF reader, a good music player with Opus support, a FOSS email app, and -- last but not least -- Öffi.
• Some irregular donations to the KeePassXC and Paperless-NGX developers.

I would like everyone who has ever donated to FOSS software developers to consider that 'money spent to avoid Big Tech'. You're doing a good thing.

Somewhere around $12. Covers email, VPN, and non-KYC data. Might jump up several dollars if I get around to making a personal website with a custom domain.

The only streaming media I consume regularly is on Youtube and I don't see a good alternative on the horizon. uBlock and Pipepipe it is for now.

Nothing.

A VPN is the quickest, easiest way for me to avoid having my data sucked up by my ISP and Google. I'm using Thunderbird for email instead of Google. I use DuckDuckGo for searches, and it allows you to block search results on a per-site basis. I mostly use that feature to block AI-generated search result sites.

The amount of time and money I spend to avoid them makes me want to take them to small claims court.

47 eur for my vps setup

Thanks. Didn't know about web.de. Shall have a look.

Here's a treat to add to your websearch shortlist: https://searx.neocities.org/

I'm in the process. Right now about $13 a month for a VPS which hosts email, video / audio / text chat, nextcloud, gps tracking, and others.

I need to do something about my android phone, and I'm looking at that too. I have a phone running ubports, but I'm scared to daily it just right now.

10€ extra total, 8 extra for Tidal instead of Spotify and 2 for a paid email service.

But that's not an entirely fair comparison, Tidal is a better service than Spotify, and there are plenty of free email providers to choose from.

I have a domain. I want to self host my email. Idk how to do that. So that cost.

But also $1ish for sync.com, proton mail free for rn, qwant is free obviously, and my domain costs like $15 a year.