YouTube's VPN crackdown continues with a wave of emails urging users to switch to a local payment method, or their subscription will NOT be renewed

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In a previous post over a month ago, I discussed YouTube’s move to enforce local payment methods for Premium subscriptions. This change is now being rolled out to the majority of users.

What happens at the deadline stated in the email?
You’ll receive a notification that your subscription won’t be renewed, but you can continue using it until your next billing date.

This is part of YouTube’s broader effort to stop users from using VPNs to access cheaper Premium subscriptions from other countries. Initially, these measures only affected new subscribers, but now, even existing subscribers are being targeted. If users don’t comply, they will lose access to their Premium benefits.

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I got the email too, not all countries are affected.
Check out this link I found, only some countries say you must use a payment method from within this country.
Also, if the country you change to accepts PayPal you might be ok too I’m guessing

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Can confirm. I just got the email

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I also got the email, I’m buying subscription from Nigeria it costs ~1$

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Juat received the email.

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The efforts deployed for what must be such a small amount of users is… disturbing

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Got the email, but thankfully my brother in law lives in one of the lower rate countries

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anyone here from india/argentina willing to help a bro out?? IM WILLING TO PAY ABIT MORE SO WE BOTH WIN😰

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Is there a credit card company like revolut that issues virtual cards from other countries? Would
That be legal?

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Which countries are those?

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you can buy local payment method, but you need to switch to yearly subscription.

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YT Premium is not worth paying for if it’s the same price as Apple or Spotify. I’d rather switch than pay full price & I’d avoid ads by using a third party client.

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Anyone had success with a virtual card? Ukraine. Let me know

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Has anyone heard of, or tried those shared family plans? It seems like they are buying accounts from other countries and Parcing out the Individual family member invites at a much cheaper rate.

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Have we found a solution to this?

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Got the email too. They cancelled my premium on the 14th and I’m not coming back. Duck them. They want $33 a month for the family plan now when i was paying around half that. They get nothing from me now but I still get no ads and background play.

Wonder if they’ll read this and realise 50% of something was better than 100% of nothing. Absurdly ludicrous pricing for the family plan now. If it was around 20 I’d pay it, though, but not more than that.

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Has anyone found a solution for this? My subscription is expiring this Tuesday and I refuse to watch ads, I tried resubscribing again with VPN but unfortunately they want a card issued on the same country.

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I’ve just had this email as well, it’s a shame.

The price I was paying felt fair for no-ads YouTube.

I think I’ll try to find a method of paying reduced prices still, but I will admit I’ve got YouTube Music working quite well as an alternative to Spotify – so while Spotify is superior I think I can live with YouTube Music which means that gives a £10/month justification for YouTube Premium, and attributing the extra £2 for ad-free YouTube is just about acceptable.

Still, it’s a bitter pill to swallow and certainly feels expensive when YT Music isn’t supported on Amazon Echos and isn’t quite as good as Spotify.

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The best what you can do is go on Alibaba and buy a cheap plan there. I just bought one there instead

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Apple workaround works