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frontpage Posted by MellowNarwhal3611 • Mar 4, 2021

3-Month YouTube Premium Subscription

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Best Buy offers New Subscribers: 3-Month YouTube Premium Subscription for Free.

Thanks to community member MellowNarwhal3611 for finding this deal.

Note, instructions to redeem are emailed after purchase. A BestBuy.com account is required. Download in US only.

Features:
  • Ad-free & background play
    • Watch videos uninterrupted by ads, while using other apps, or when the screen is locked.
  • Downloads
    • Save videos for when you really need them – like when you're on a plane or commuting.
  • YouTube Music Premium
    • Download our new music app and listen without interruptions.

Editor's Notes

Written by johnny_miller | Staff
  • About this offer:
    • YouTube Premium is $11.99 per month if you wish to continue beyond the trial period (you may cancel here at any time).
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional information.

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Best Buy offers New Subscribers: 3-Month YouTube Premium Subscription for Free.

Thanks to community member MellowNarwhal3611 for finding this deal.

Note, instructions to redeem are emailed after purchase. A BestBuy.com account is required. Download in US only.

Features:
  • Ad-free & background play
    • Watch videos uninterrupted by ads, while using other apps, or when the screen is locked.
  • Downloads
    • Save videos for when you really need them – like when you're on a plane or commuting.
  • YouTube Music Premium
    • Download our new music app and listen without interruptions.

Editor's Notes

Written by johnny_miller | Staff
  • About this offer:
    • YouTube Premium is $11.99 per month if you wish to continue beyond the trial period (you may cancel here at any time).
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional information.

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divinebaboon
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Shady slickdeals: If you VPN into India and sign up for youtube premium there, you pay like $2.6 for a family plan or $1.7 for a personal plan. But you have to pay using an american credit card and a made up indian billing address, and a lot of cards don't work.

Here are the rough steps
1. Go buy a free book from the android ebook store [google.com]. This is done to lock your account into the US. If you've downloaded from the android appstore before then this shouldn't be necessary, but do it just to be safe. If you don't do this, you risk locking your account to India. (If you did lock your account to india, follow the steps here to resolve it)

1b. As a safety precaution, go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings and check under the Country/Region section to make sure it says US. If not, try the ebook thing from step 1 again. If that doesn't work, try adding a US credit card in the "Payment Methods" section of that site and see if it sets the Country to US for you. I recommend only proceeding with the following steps if you are able to lock your Country to the US. If your Country is empty then it will get locked to India after the below steps and you will have to use the steps here to resolve it.

1c. If you want to do a family plan and be extra cautious, add all your family plan members right now before you sign up for youtube india premium. The reason being some users are saying they are having trouble adding family plan users after they do the following steps and try my troubleshooting guide. So the best way to circumvent those issues is to just add the users to your family first. You can add users to your family here [google.com]

2. Get a VPN. I tried Nord but a lot of their indian servers were in saudi arabia, only server 63 and 75 work properly. But tunnel bear worked for me and is free.

3. VPN into india, open youtube, make sure the upper left logo has "IN" next to it. You could also try Argentina for a cheaper price, the steps are largely the same.

4. Click on your avatar in the upper right corner, make sure it says "location: india", then click "purchase and memberships"

5. Click "youtube premium" on the left.

6. Click on the "2 months free" button for the personal plan, or click on "family or student plan" for the family plan.

7. Make sure you pick the subscription option instead of the prepaid option if you picked personal plan. We can't do prepaid with this method.

8. Here's the hard part, put in your american credit card with a random indian address. I used a fast food joint in mumbai. Datapoints suggest that Some chase cards, amex cards, BOA cards, and US bank cards work. If they don't work, use your paypal to generate a paypal key and use that. If paypal key doesn't work, try signing up on your android phone, I hear you don't have to put in the street address on there. Remember to use a card that has 0 foreign transaction fees. If you pay annual fee on your credit card, then there's a high chance they charge 0 foreign transaction fee.

9. Turn off the VPN and enjoy.

PS: Your youtube music front page might have a lot of indian musicians on there, but it should not impact the youtube video site.
PSS: If you are going to add friends/family to your family plan, make sure their accounts are US also. You can do that via the free ebook method in step 1. If their account is from another country, you can't add them.

Proof of my monthly family plan:
https://i.imgur.com/JDHPfZv.png
ClaytonM3247
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Be warned: once you start using Youtube without ads, you'll NEVER want to go back
pony
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It is a modified YouTube app with the "paid customer" features permanently enabled. It updates automatically just like YouTube and it does not require root.

It is YOUTUBE ADVANCED... But without the "Ad"... So it is just " YouTube Vanced".

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Mar 5, 2021
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someoneslick
Mar 5, 2021
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my blocker works on yt, but ordered, anyway. Although I got confused and thought this was for the premium content not available without it, ie original content, didn't realize it was just mostly to take ads out. I assume the downloads are also protected where you can't just use them wherever forever?
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HelloClemFandango
Mar 5, 2021
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Quote from ClaytonM3247 :
Be warned: once you start using Youtube without ads, you'll NEVER want to go back
I go back all the time. #NeverPaying.
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ADHDER7799
Mar 5, 2021
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Got 2 months free since I'm not a new member. Slick. Thanks
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someoneslick
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Quote from 4ndrogenic :
3 adblockers make an ad-free YT: Adblock, Adblock Plus, and Adguard. It's likely overkill, but all three let very little through.
the only one that works for me most places in edge chromium is ublock origin.
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Nice deal!
Using the Brave browser app on android works to block the ads for me. On desktop I use Firefox with the Ghostery add-on, and both are free.
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Mar 5, 2021
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Did this awhile back. For sure cancelled it immediately, still got charged $11.99 after it ran out. They refused to refund me.
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NickieBoy97
Mar 5, 2021
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Awsome! I just cancelled my Spotify premium since they were having an issue with my payment. I had Spotify connected to a Google Home I'd given my mom. Apparently you need to subscribe to a service to ask Google to play music. 🤷 At least now she can use it until I get it sorted with Spotify

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Mar 5, 2021
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mowillwin
Mar 5, 2021
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Not a new member but still got 1 month free. Thanks!
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gullzway
Mar 5, 2021
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Quote from IamAwesom3 :
That's why I use YouTube Vanced.
Same on my rooted Moto G Stylus. Still in for one on the Family Home PC.
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cmw
Mar 5, 2021
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I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in forever. Just get ad blockers for your browser and YouTube Vanced if you are using the app on your phone or wherever.
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JohnS2672
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Anyone having iasues trying to redeem it? I go to the redemption page, add code, hit next, then it takes me to a 1 month free trial page
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louweed
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Wasn't there a 6 month free promo just last year?
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revlisoft
Mar 5, 2021
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Quote from 4ndrogenic :
3 adblockers make an ad-free YT: Adblock, Adblock Plus, and Adguard. It's likely overkill, but all three let very little through.
Can I set this up on shieldtv some how?
Mar 5, 2021
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Texas-Smokey
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Quote from louweed :
Wasn't there a 6 month free promo just last year?
Where did you post it? Link to wherever that offer is still available

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Quote from 4ndrogenic :
3 adblockers make an ad-free YT: Adblock, Adblock Plus, and Adguard. It's likely overkill, but all three let very little through.
there are other features to YTP, like downloading and music premium. Those are useful.
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