Hoppy.network, so I can give the Raspberry Pi running in my closet a real IPv4 address.
Monthly donations to Ardour.org, my favorite DAW.
Some things sound ok, while others are encoded with some painful loss of fidelity. It is like it is 1999 again and you try to encode MP3 at 112 kbit/s to squeeze a full album into your 64 MB player, that bad.
I read somewhere that it uses Youtube as the source material and reencodes that instead of sourcing it properly as in Google Music.
Been living ad-free for 3 years now
Contextual/integrated advertising is something many creators already do - in a lot of cases it's because they have no choice (their videos have been demonetized for etc).
Mind you, there are ways to get around that too, but I don't mind. After all, as you say, they need to get paid.
Why? Ad-blockers exist.