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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
294 Posts
204 Reputation
Be warned: once you start using Youtube without ads, you'll NEVER want to go back
pony
2782 Posts
1256 Reputation
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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DMathew3
Mar 5, 2021
453 Posts
Quote from mnagesw :
Is there Vanced App for IOS?
Nope, love my Samsung Galaxy phones. And there is a modded free version of TuneIn Pro with no banners and pre-roll ads that I use daily.
Last edited by DMathew3 March 4, 2021 at 09:42 PM.
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Mar 5, 2021
332 Posts
Joined Jan 2019
Mar 5, 2021
sologhost502
Mar 5, 2021
332 Posts
Here's my code. Only got 1 month so didn't use it. Someone else can use it. OOD23AFHWM4B
Mar 5, 2021
33 Posts
Joined Sep 2019
Mar 5, 2021
yasba42
Mar 5, 2021
33 Posts
Quote from divinebaboon :
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.

2. Get a VPN. I tried Nord but a lot of their indian servers were in saudi arabia. 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.

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.

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
+1 on this

Best way to get Youtube Premium. Had a account since a couple of months.

The only problem is I signed up for a family plan. That account works but I can't get others to join. I always get "Looks like you're in a different country than the family manager."

I bought free US ebooks on every account without a problem.

Any ideas?
Mar 5, 2021
20 Posts
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Mar 5, 2021
GreenCreator641
Mar 5, 2021
20 Posts
Went through! Thank you!
Mar 5, 2021
244 Posts
Joined Dec 2013
Mar 5, 2021
DanielF7918
Mar 5, 2021
244 Posts
Content creators make more from Premium subscribers watching their content than a free viewer who sees ads.
Mar 5, 2021
30 Posts
Joined Feb 2021
Mar 5, 2021
TenseFaucet1565
Mar 5, 2021
30 Posts
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.
does these interrupt viewing ?
Mar 5, 2021
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fueradeljuego
Mar 5, 2021
1,582 Posts
I want thru the whole thing and when I went to redeem the code they only offered me one month. WTH?

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Mar 5, 2021
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Luxowell
Mar 5, 2021
749 Posts
I also only got one month from the code. Never had YouTube premium before that.
Mar 5, 2021
121 Posts
Joined Mar 2018
Mar 5, 2021
JuanM2652
Mar 5, 2021
121 Posts
Love not having adds and youtube music included, was a easy upgrade for me. If you have family members who want to get it aswell get the family package and save some money.
Mar 5, 2021
124 Posts
Joined Jan 2021
Mar 5, 2021
HondaBoy619
Mar 5, 2021
124 Posts
It's really trash how Google disabled YouTube's background play and picture-in-picture mode just so they could charge for it. Every other app has this for free.
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Mar 5, 2021
110 Posts
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Mar 5, 2021
PhoeniXLord
Mar 5, 2021
110 Posts
If you android.
You don't need this.
Vanced gotcha.
Mar 5, 2021
2 Posts
Joined Dec 2020
Mar 5, 2021
garette
Mar 5, 2021
2 Posts

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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.
uhh please no. those are owned by ad companies and try to get you to consent to whitelisting their ads by claiming they're unobtrusive.

ublock origin and nanodefender should suffice for most people.
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PurpleTerrier192
Mar 5, 2021
88 Posts

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I wouldn't sign up for this unless you are planning on continuing the subscription. I did this last year and now youtube always nag me about paying for the subscription. I swear I get even more ads now. I think they know you might pay so they nag you even more.
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Mar 5, 2021
150 Posts
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shawnsavickus
Mar 5, 2021
150 Posts
Quote from IamAwesom3 :
That's why I use YouTube Vanced.
I use smarttube on my fire stick

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sbatista2979
Mar 5, 2021
8 Posts
Works!! Order pending but it went through.

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