Soldato
Ukraine still working here for 99UAH (£1.92) a month!
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So far my monthly Turkey plan is still ok.
Soldato
VPN workarounds for cheaper YouTube Premium subscriptions failing (Update: Google confirms)
YouTube is canceling Premium subscriptions of members who used a VPN workaround to get Premium at cheaper rates than applicable. Read on!
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Soldato
South Africa still good. £4.80/month for a family plan.
Own goal by YT, at least they are getting some money from these VPN memberships. Now they will end up getting nothing as I very much doubt anyone who used a VPN is willing to pay UK prices.
I certainly won't. Not got any emails yet though.
I certainly won't. Not got any emails yet though.
Soldato
Been using AdBlock on YT and it has now came up with the message saying to allow ads or the player will be blocked in 3 videos time.... Its now 2 videos time so will see what happens.
Caporegime
Thats because adblock is *****. Get uBlock origin.
Closing the VPN loop was only a matter of time. It's an easy way to quickly boost revenue, just look at what happen to Netflix when they stopped password sharing...record profits. Yes, there will be people that will not pay for premium, there also be a lot people that will.
Caporegime
It's been emotional
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Not gonna lie I'll probably sub to Swedish rate when it hits me .... God knows what that costs... Too much tho.
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Not gonna lie I'll probably sub to Swedish rate when it hits me .... God knows what that costs... Too much tho.
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Caporegime
Half the price of UK at 6.99 euros a month !
That was for Premium Lite which was discontinued in October 2023.
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Why on earth won't they remove the damn YT Music, no one gives a damn about that garbage
I do. It works absolutely fine, and significantly cheaper than Spotify.
Doesn't work on my TV, and id still need a separate music subscription.
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VPN workarounds for cheaper YouTube Premium subscriptions failing (Update: Google confirms)
YouTube is canceling Premium subscriptions of members who used a VPN workaround to get Premium at cheaper rates than applicable. Read on!
Interesting in that article they close with:
That reads as though they are saying that they if you bought it in country X then used in country Y without using a vpn during sign up, you won't have got caught.
This could mean that google are simply filtering on VPN exit nodes which they deem to be "a VPN exit node IP" on their lists.
One may be able to work around this by utilizing more private VPNs, company VPNs, less well known ones perhaps?
For example, you can bet that they have all of the commonly used VPNs listed like Nord, PIA etc.
Could one not VPN to country X then remote on to a virtual server hosted in said country to sign up?
I like my music
Exactly, if I'm going to pay for music I want a decent bitrate. So I use a Hi-Res service, fortunately I'm a good 'friend' with someone in Bangalore.
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I do legally have a house address in India.. do you need to be signed into the VPN to use it regularly?
Also can you use rupees via revolut to sign up?
Also can you use rupees via revolut to sign up?
No VPN needed to use any of these online streaming services generally. It's more about initial sign up taking place in a different country (virtually via VPN) to bag the cheaper price. But that sign up IP address/location gets stamped against your account on google databases. They then can run automated processes to compare your "normal" usage IPs against your original sign up ones. If you meet the criteria for deletion then you get cancelled. I don't know this is how the process works, but it's going to be something along those lines. It's all about the sign up IP. If you can make that IP look like it came from a domestic location from an ISP in India for example, that is going to have more of a chance to survive.
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