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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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Beach__House
Mar 5, 2021
1,444 Posts
On ipad anyone know where to enter the code? When I go to the redeem page it is prepopulated with an offer for 1 month free. I don't see anywhere else in settings or memberships to enter the BB code.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Pseudoty March 5, 2021 at 03:35 AM.
Mar 5, 2021
1 Posts
Joined Apr 2020
Mar 5, 2021
NeatStep238
Mar 5, 2021
1 Posts
I got charged immediately for this month after using this code, no free month
Mar 5, 2021
248 Posts
Joined Sep 2017
Mar 5, 2021
DunDee910
Mar 5, 2021
248 Posts
I've been wanting to try this service. I watch YouTube every night. Thanks OP
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Mar 5, 2021
3,832 Posts
Joined Jan 2012
Mar 5, 2021
RedElmo
Mar 5, 2021
3,832 Posts
Quote from NeatStep238 :
I got charged immediately for this month after using this code, no free month
Really? Now I need to take precautions.
Mar 5, 2021
770 Posts
Joined Dec 2007
Mar 5, 2021
Jon2288
Mar 5, 2021
770 Posts
Quote from TekkenLord :
turn off your adblocker app or any in-browser adblocker.
Ironic you need to turn off an ad blocker so you can get service with no ads!! 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Mar 5, 2021
1,175 Posts
Joined Oct 2005
Mar 5, 2021
ACAx1985
Mar 5, 2021
1,175 Posts
Absolutely necessary if you are on iOS.

Otherwise adblockers will remove all ads easily.
1
Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Joined Oct 2009
Mar 5, 2021
SammieSocal25
Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Quote from NearlyFriend :
In general yes. But there are crack/ hack groups that are relatively trustworthy as long as you get them from their verified sources. The principal that makes them safe is that if their user base is big enough it can be assumed that if they where up to no good someone in the community would have discovered as much and it would be public knowledge.
Interesting theory because, even the most popular and "trusted" apps in the app store have some form of malware, tracker, or beacon. I.g. TikTok, Facebook, LastPass, and bunch of smaller apps (games, calculator, flashlights, etc...).

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Mar 5, 2021
200 Posts
Joined Nov 2017
Mar 5, 2021
Murphinator2000
Mar 5, 2021
200 Posts
I put in my code from Best Buy and because I have a Samsung phone they gave me 4 months free... Neat.
Mar 5, 2021
70 Posts
Joined Oct 2014
Mar 5, 2021
Jatsmobile
Mar 5, 2021
70 Posts
No love for existing customers 🙄
1
Mar 5, 2021
367 Posts
Joined Aug 2006
Mar 5, 2021
hw0006
Mar 5, 2021
367 Posts
It seems there is no way to cancel the premium membership. It only has "deactivate" under "manage membership" which only pauses the membership rather than cancel.
Mar 5, 2021
2,065 Posts
Joined Jan 2007
Mar 5, 2021
gullzway
Mar 5, 2021
2,065 Posts
Quote from Besser :
How you get it YouTube vanced?
Just go to their website and install the Vanced manager.
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Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Joined Oct 2009
Mar 5, 2021
SammieSocal25
Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Quote from shortyman24 :
Youtube vanced is trustworthy been using it for years. microG is an open source implementation of Google Play Services. YouTube Vanced is a modded version of the official YouTube app and is therefore not open source. Vanced is generally considered to be trustworthy though.

You don't have to login to use app.

Other alternative for android is NewPipe with is open sourced.
I'm not following, if you take and modify any apk regardless of its an official package, you can self sign it with any laced code. I'm not saying that Vanced has malware, I'm only pointing out the fact that it's generally possible for any modified apk.
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Joined Jun 2010
Mar 5, 2021
ripper82
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Quote from dj1001 :
Youtube Vanced on mobile and uBlock origin on dekstop. No reason to give google your money or watch their ads.
Correction: Youtube Vanced on ANDROID mobile and uBlock Origin on desktop.

No solution offered for iOS, smart TVs, Roku, Amazon Fire, AppleTV, etc.
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Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
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Mar 5, 2021
SammieSocal25
Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Quote from hw0006 :
It seems there is no way to cancel the premium membership. It only has "deactivate" under "manage membership" which only pauses the membership rather than cancel.
Just create a scrap Gmail account, pause, then delete account.

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Mar 5, 2021
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in_awe
Mar 5, 2021
392 Posts
A question for those suggesting using ad blockers instead of paying for Premium - Are you still able to view videos in 4K and HDR with the ad blockers on?

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