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by FBISurveillance 959 days ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'd just create a new account.

These days, every time I have to pay for something online I ask myself: is it worth 5.5% per year guaranteed no-risk that i'm losing out if I'd buy bonds instead?

I know it's offtopic, but I did a review last month and stripped down number of subscriptions:

* Replaced Dropbox with GDrive that I already pay for as part of my personal Google Workspace subscription (email on my domain).

* After recent Apple One price hike I couldn't justify it canceled and got _exactly what I need_ (just 200GB iCloud and Music), 3x cost reduction.

* Started transferring my soon-expiring domains from Gandi to Porkbun (I was too lazy before).

And so on, there were some more and I trimmed my online spend down significantly.

Out of curiosity, anyone else is doing this sort of optimization? During ZIRP I never cared much.

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It it's a one time paiement, would you consider it ?
Me personally (sample size 1) - not really, but my social network usage is non-existing. I only have X where I follow tech folk and that's it. Not a user of FB/Instagram/etc.
Mmmh i see