Amazon. I used the free month then cancelled.
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Rent. But I hade to get another one soon after
gym membership 
I go through my patreon account every January and weed out dead channels. Must have been one of those.
I recently cancelled my Tuta subscription; their cheapest tier's price comes close to renting a server and hosting your own email, but I can also use the server for anything else I want :D
I got grandfathered into the 12€ per year subscription, but the new current tiers are indeed quite expensive
Local e-commerce subscription (e.g. Amazon prime-like); well, I'm not sure if it counts as cancelling 😅:
For €4 you get 1 month subscription of free shipping for orders above €25. They started a few years ago with like €12 for the annual plan (€15 minimum total order from multiple stores), then increased the price, then it became €15 per store, then increased the minimum order, then increased the price again, etc
I don't want to encourage the enshittification, so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal 😅 They also started adding social features: now the front page has their own implementation of a short videos thing (like TikTok), with influencers showing various products and bad "reviews" 🙄 So I reaaally don't want to be throwing money into that
I'm paid up for the year on prime but it's not getting renewed. It's massively convenient but ethically shit so I'm gonna start making more effort
so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal
I've been doing this for Amazon Prime. I shop there as infrequently as I can manage, but sometimes it's just the best way to get something I need. In those cases, when I check out, they invariably offer me 15 days of Prime for like, $4.99 or something. So I accept the offer. Place the order, then later that day, cancel the Prime subscription. They issue a pro-rated refund, so I end up paying about $0.35 for 2-day shipping on any order.
Proton.
Why? I just signed up, quite happy with them.
NowTV. Only used it to watch F1 races live, but it's pointless during the off-season, and watching races live with two kids is near enough impossible to enjoy. Plus they purposely make you wait a day before putting sessions on for catch-up, so I just cancelled it and find other ways of watching the sessions.
Cable internet. (Cox)
Got tired of paying over $100/mo for an unreliable 500Mbps line with a shit 10Mbps upload and a pointless data cap.
Now I pay $50/mo for 5G fixed wireless. 1500Mbps both ways and no stupid data cap. Even with a tree blocking line-of-sight, it's still more reliable than cable ever was.
Made the switch 4 years ago and haven't looked back (I don't subscribe to many things).
What is the latency like, who did you go with?
Good enough to play competitive PC shooters (less than 40ms for servers 2 states away on the west coast).
Verizon 5G Home internet (the one with the big white box that mounts in your window, not the slower one with the small white box that goes anywhere).
I'm really surprised that people have subscriptions to all kinds of shit. The only things I pay subscriptions for are Netflix and Peacock, which total about $10 per month. I can't recall cancelling any subscriptions because I don't sign up for a bunch of shit in the first place.
I only have my phone and that's prepaid.
This! I find it difficult to even remember any subscriptions I have cancelled because I have so few: I don't use any movie streaming services, I only have Spotify for music, ISP, and the couple of servers I pay monthly
Proton last year. And Namecheap
I've recently cancelled apple, netflix and kindle unlimited. Netflix yanked the price up and so much on it is shit quality. I still have amazon telly and disney, so apple had to go (although its VG). I need disney for the sitcoms.