Ways to save money using a VPN?

RianBB said:
VPN works for saving money on airline tickets, getting the best price on car rental or even hotel room reservations. I often found hotel deals that costed much less from one location to another, and have saved a considerable few hundred dollars over the last couple of years using this technique I discovered through the article https://bigpricedrops.com/how-to-save-money-with-a-vpn-5-ways/ . Being smart you can save a furtune.
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That link you gave also suggested hotel reservations. Have anyone tried using a VPN + booking.com on UK reservations? I still can't get over how expensive Premier Inn is now. In 2010-2019 and in 2021 (so mostly post-pandemic), I was paying around £42 to £48 a night for a room (not including extras) and the same branch is now asking for between £135 and £175 a night (again no extras), which is like 3x to 4x the post-pandemic rate! Their breakfast which you can buy as a bolt-on has always been pretty decent though and it has stayed unchanged at the £10 mark.
 
I used Nord VPN (15 day free trial) to buy Youtube premium for £1.42 via Argentina. I used an Buenos Aires internet cafe as the address at checkout and all went through nicely. Cancelled the free trial and now have youtube premium on my account and all's well :D

I did the whole process via Firefox on mobile, browsed to Youtube.com and clicked account area > Get premium whilst connected to the Argentina VPN server. It did not work using the youtube app to get the sub. But doing it via the mobile browser no problem, which then applied it to my account so is active on anything I use with my Google account now.

Paid using Samsung Pay+ card btw (Mastercard).
 
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If you're going to break tos by sighing up via VPN, why not just use a different YouTube app that blocks ads etc?
Smart tube next? Or something like that is what I put on my fire sticks as I couldn't get any ad blocking to work in the yt app. It can also auto skip sponsor segments and stuff if you so choose.

Obviously not a solution for other apps.

The crack down on account sharing for Netflix and Spotify is stated as stopping people sharing accounts who don't login from the primary address once a month. This can be defeated by simply having your primary account holder run their own VPN (windows, openvpn, free software) and then connecting via them once a month or so. LTT has a recentish video explaining it in detail if you need instructions.
 
I've just bought Surfshark VPN, first time I've ever paid for one :eek:

I'm currently paying 37p/month for 6 Tidal accounts, and my wife will be watching loads of Aussie telly. I might go for Youtube plus, but are there any other goodies that are worth it?

Cheers :)
 
Getting annoyed with this now, very swift reminder why I avoid stuff like this.

Works fine on Android phone, downloaded APK to watch Aussie telly, works fine. Can't stream to Chromecast, does this need to be connected to a VPN too?

For some reason my A71 doesn't have screen mirroring, is there an app for this?

And lastly Apple can do one, they support absolutely naff all :p
 
Have just looked at how much im saving using VPN

Netflix £12 a month
Disney £91 a year
Canva £75 a year
Youtube £12 a month

Saving over £450 a year for these 4 alone versus current UK pricing.

WIth these sort of prices I can justify trying out some offerings eg. Canva, which I ended up keeping after the trial purely because of the low cost and if I get only a few uses out of it again it has already paid for itself.
 
Moobert said:
Have just looked at how much im saving using VPN

Netflix £12 a month
Disney £91 a year
Canva £75 a year
Youtube £12 a month

Saving over £450 a year for these 4 alone versus current UK pricing.

WIth these sort of prices I can justify trying out some offerings eg. Canva, which I ended up keeping after the trial purely because of the low cost and if I get only a few uses out of it again it has already paid for itself.
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This is just piracy with more steps. May as well just get a usenet sub and download everything.
 
dlockers said:
This is just piracy with more steps. May as well just get a usenet sub and download everything.
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How does 'pay for service' = 'piracy'?

Can a usenet sub allow me to use the Canva app on my phone, YT premium on work laptop, or my Netflix account when I'm at the In-laws or at a hotel and fancy something to watch on a whim?
 
Moobert said:
How does 'pay for service' = 'piracy'?

Can a usenet sub allow me to use the Canva app on my phone, YT premium on work laptop, or my Netflix account when I'm at the In-laws or at a hotel and fancy something to watch on a whim?
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Because you aren't legitimately paying for the service as per the ToS?
 
dlockers said:
Because you aren't legitimately paying for the service as per the ToS?
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Who's the mug here, the ones paying full price, or the ones exploiting the loopholes?

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dlockers said:
The mugs paying and still not being legit lol. I'd rather (and do) pay 0 and stop messing around. YT premium turkey trick being the exception because it's hard to pirate that.
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Ohhhhh, I getcha. No idea what Canva is. I have Vanced on my phone which has no ads (but still misses some features of Premium, can live without them though), I have Spotify for free, and I pay a tenner a month for another service which serves pretty much anything I want via Plex. It's great.
 
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