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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
947 Posts
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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
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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
270 Posts
Joined Apr 2016
Mar 5, 2021
Nobody_888
Mar 5, 2021
270 Posts
Bought 3 to try since it's free
1
Mar 5, 2021
766 Posts
Joined Apr 2009
Mar 5, 2021
tsa1
Mar 5, 2021
766 Posts
I love YouTube premium. Once you get it there's almost no reason to watch Netflix. Nothing interests me anymore. SO much content on there. Stuff I didn't even know I would be into. Love YouTube premium. I borrow my gf's student account 😂
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Mar 5, 2021
25 Posts
Joined Dec 2007
Mar 5, 2021
xios42
Mar 5, 2021
25 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.
That's only going to work in a browser. If you want an ad-free experience in one of the YouTube apps Premium is the easiest way. You also get know that you're paying your fair share to the creators and YouTube.
Mar 5, 2021
419 Posts
Joined Dec 2017
Mar 5, 2021
carwash1976
Mar 5, 2021
419 Posts
Quote from ClaytonM3247 :
Be warned: once you start using Youtube without ads, you'll NEVER want to go back
once I see that charge on my credit card i'll want to go back
Mar 5, 2021
5,176 Posts
Joined Nov 2003
Mar 5, 2021
gergev
Mar 5, 2021
5,176 Posts
Quote from FierceDeityLink :
SmartTubeNext. It even supports SponsorBlock which will automatically skip the unnecessary parts of videos (in-video sponsored segments, non-music parts of music videos, like/subscribe reminders, and intro/credits).
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext


https://vancedapp.com/
vanedapp keeps asking me to update due to a bug in microg. All I see after downloading the apk 3 times is "reinstall" next to youtube vanced, youtube music and vanced microg. Using android 8. Maybe it's too old for vanced?Also phone is not rooted.

edit: ah, I think I got it working. sry
Last edited by gergev March 5, 2021 at 01:43 AM.
Mar 5, 2021
158 Posts
Joined Mar 2015
Mar 5, 2021
koomoo
Mar 5, 2021
158 Posts
Android users. Use YouTube Vanced. Google it. It's basically YouTube premium features without the cost.

No ads
Playback while app is minimized or screen is off.
Interface is exactly YouTube.
You can even login your account as well.
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Mar 5, 2021
508 Posts
Joined Mar 2014
Mar 5, 2021
ShatOnYourSteak
Mar 5, 2021
508 Posts
Quote from texst :
Does this allow you to view the comments on The White House channel's videos? Or are the comments permanently deleted once they remember to disable them each time?
The most popular president of all time doesn't need to hear criticism you racist bigot Nazi! (Joking)
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Mar 5, 2021
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dcobb
Mar 5, 2021
3,813 Posts
Sounds great but what am I going to do at the end of 3 months, certainly not going to pay for it. May try it anyway...
Mar 5, 2021
146 Posts
Joined Jan 2020
Mar 5, 2021
PurpleMorning3160
Mar 5, 2021
146 Posts
Where should I apply code ? Is this only available after free trial?
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Mar 5, 2021
570 Posts
Joined Dec 2015
Mar 5, 2021
Besser
Mar 5, 2021
570 Posts
Quote from gullzway :
Same on my rooted Moto G Stylus. Still in for one on the Family Home PC.
How you get it YouTube vanced?
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Mar 5, 2021
14 Posts
Joined May 2015
Mar 5, 2021
GuruOfSound
Mar 5, 2021
14 Posts
Just use Newpipe instead. It's free, open source, Supports legal commercial free YouTube And SoundCloud streaming.
newpipe.net
Mar 5, 2021
14 Posts
Joined May 2015
Mar 5, 2021
GuruOfSound
Mar 5, 2021
14 Posts
Quote from ClaytonM3247 :
Be warned: once you start using Youtube without ads, you'll NEVER want to go back
If you have youtube music premium, when you click explore then music (In the YouTube app) it will auto launch in the music app. I find this both annoying and convenient at the same time
Mar 5, 2021
15 Posts
Joined Jul 2014
Mar 5, 2021
Travs23
Mar 5, 2021
15 Posts
Quote from dj1001 :
Youtube Vanced on mobile and uBlock origin on dekstop. No reason to give google your money or watch their ads.
Or you can support the content creator that you are watching. Not all of the ad revenue goes to Google!
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Mar 5, 2021
14 Posts
Joined May 2015
Mar 5, 2021
GuruOfSound
Mar 5, 2021
14 Posts
Quote from IamAwesom3 :
That's why I use YouTube Vanced.
Never heard of Vanced. I'll check it out. Currently I use Newpipe

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Mar 5, 2021
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PurpleWalrus455
Mar 5, 2021
333 Posts
Quote from tsa1 :
I love YouTube premium. Once you get it there's almost no reason to watch Netflix. Nothing interests me anymore. SO much content on there. Stuff I didn't even know I would be into. Love YouTube premium. I borrow my gf's student account 😂
I totally agree with this comment. I got rid of cable late last year and do not miss it. I find youtube to be highly entertaining.
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