Im from the UK. I cant remember exactly what i did last time, but something along the lines of using a VPN based in Argentina to sign up for Youtube Premium, giving a billing address in Argentina but using my UK (Virgin Money) credit card.
Been charging approx £1.60 every month for this service.
Not too clued up on this stuff now, Any ways around this? I mostly listen to Youtube on my iPhone.
Many thanks
Just FYI, Kazakhstan currently doesn’t have these checks. It’s the cheapest country at the moment that doesn’t, I believe. So erm… “move” there?
By other reports of the same thing and by my own experience, it absolutely looks like YouTube got wise to this method. Or, if they knew of it all along, which is likely, they just decided to crack down on it.
Many people doing this had emails like a month or two ago, announcing that their premium would be cancelled if they don´t use an actual payment method from the country they pretend to live in.
I for one decided to ditch the shenanigans for now and just use modded apps. ReVanced for Android, Firefox with ublock and sponsorblock on PC and smarttube on my tv.
Time will tell if the “trick” will still work in the future or if there will be a new one.
I don’t have a way to solve this
However if you just use premium to bypass ads (and don’t use other features), just use a VPN in Albania, it removes ads on YouTube
YouTube will soon learn that a little money is better than zero. I refuse to pay 34 euros for a family plan just to avoid stupid ads.
Well you might have to wait till someone that knows what’s going on in your country responds but check the email headers and make sure it’s actually from YouTube.
Awful lot of scams going on these days…
With that said and what you wrote, it sounds like they’re finally catching up to matching payment sources to IP addresses and your VPN trick of signing up in a different country probably won’t work or is going to be more difficult to pull off than it was before. Even if you do get it to work now, I think the chance of your account just getting closed is going to be fairly high.
I would suggest canceling and then resubscribing but doing so without the use of a VPN.
They sent me this email in the end of October with a deadline for November 21st.
I ignored the email to see what happens, and all they did was send me another email on the day of the deadline.
Now I have until December 8th to change it.
They’ll just send me another email I guess lmao
Loads of folks have had these emails (I’ve had mine for about 3 years) , few people on a forum I was in mention that they’ve still had money taken after the date shown and can still get premium so fingers crossed. If not I’ll just use one of the modded apps
The same is happening with accounts in Turkey. You need to have a card issued in that specific country.
Join an Albanian server on Nord. It’s ad free
Get yourself a nice itune or play account in Turkey, top up your balance with a gift card and buy it through the app / play store. Slightly more expensive, but still a huge saving.
Maybe try Wise? It’s an international card so youtube may think you’re in Argentina if you’re charged in their currency. Worth a try
YouTube in the UK are a joke for pricing. Ripped off.
For some time, I’ve been purchasing cheap YouTube Premium through the App Store in Turkey. I started when it cost 75.99 TRY, and now it’s 104.99 TRY, which is still much cheaper than the 9.99 USD it costs in my country.
To do this, you need to have an App Store account in Turkey and buy gift cards from that country, as they are accepted as a payment method.
Or even easier; VPN through Armenia - advertising isn’t legal their.
Can you get an annual plan when “moving” to Kazakhstan? Or is it still monthly? Just wondering if I can pre-pay an entire year just in case they want to cut it off before the renewal.
I got my email last month. I have gone the AppStore route. Create a turkey Apple ID. Top it up. Purchase premium via the Turkey id. Works out at £6 a month for family.
I got same email last month and surprisingly it got renewed with the same rate ie Turkey. I will wait for this month renewal whether it went thru or not
Edit: I read one of the comment here, to update the address. Yes, I did update the address to Turkey sometime ago. Perhaps this will make the payment weny thru eventho we receive the email.
Got the mail and YouTube was supposed to stop working a week ago. It still works and they still deduct the money