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Also, you can use a VPN to VPN into India and get youtube premium family plan for $2.6 USD per month. Follow the instructions here. Once you sign up, you do not need to VPN into India again, and it will have behave exactly like American Youtube Premium, just at a cheaper price.
You may be charged for Currency conversion charges with your credit card a week later. So make sure your CC has no Foreign transaction fee.
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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
It is YOUTUBE ADVANCED... But without the "Ad"... So it is just " YouTube Vanced".
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I have it set this way on all of the devices my family uses, none are rooted
I have it set this way on all of the devices my family uses, none are rooted
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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?
Anyway, here's how to check which country you are locked to:
1. Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings and look at the "Payments profile" section, under "Country/Region". It needs to say US for your main account and all the accounts you want to add. If it says India, follow the next steps.
2. Click on the little pen icon next to "Country/Region", it should say "You need to create a new payments profile when you move to a new country or region. "
3. Click on "Create new profile."
4. Choose US as the country you want and click next.
5. Put in your US address and submit.
6. Now you have a US profile, but you are not done. Go to the top of the https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings page and there's "Payments Profile for Google Pay", click on it, and see if there's a drop down that lets you select which country, if you can, select US: https://i.imgur.com/sXZEyUs.png . If you can select US, then great, your account is now locked to US and you are done. But keep in mind that you can only switch payment profile once a year. If you can't select the US profile, try going to the free ebook store [google.com] and get a free book, and see if your region gets locked.
If it doesn't let you switch, then you can continue with the below steps.
7. You need to delete your Indian profile. Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings and scroll to the bottom, you will see "Payments profile status" , click "Close payments profile". This will close your Indian payment profile. Pick any reason you want for closing, and continue.
8. Now you need to set your US profile as your primary. Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings again, at the top there's "Payments Profile for Google Pay", click on the drop down and pick your new shiny US payment profile.
And voila, now you are locked to the US. Now here's the best next step, add all the family members you want to add to your family plan right now, before we re-sign up for the Indian youtube premium. The reason for this is that some users say they cannot add more users after they sign up for youtube india again. So we circumvent that by adding all the users to your family plan BEFORE you sign up for the india plan again in the next step.
9.Fire up your VPN and go to India, then go to youtube's premium account management screen, it should say your indian membership is going to end in a month. Just enter your payment details with an indian address again and submit it, now you should be paying the indian price while your google account is locked to the US.
The credit for the above step to change your Google account region goes to two Chinese bloggers here [ichr.me] and here [willnet.net].
For anyone else wondering WTF this reply is for, I posted steps to sign up for the Indian Youtube Premium which is only $2.6 here. If you don't follow the instructions exactly, you could lock your google account to India. The above method is how you fix that.
Could youtube vanced have malware, sure if your grabbed the apk from some sketch site or crappy source. Grab from a trustworthy site such as their developers site/xda forums and official website. Should be safe there are lots of youtube Vanced users. I also mention the alternative NewPipe app apk that's open sourced your look at the code itself should not have malware.
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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
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India YouTube address:
Survey No. 13
Hyderabad, Telangana 500084
For anyone using NordVPN, most of their "India" servers indeed aren't actually in India, but manually choosing #63 worked for me. It was just incredibly slow. But if this works out and I only get charged $2.60 next month after the trial ends, it'll be worth that effort.
Anyway, here's how to check which country you are locked to:
1. Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings and look at the "Payments profile" section, under "Country/Region". It needs to say US for your main account and all the accounts you want to add. If it says India, follow the next steps.
2. Click on the little pen icon next to "Country/Region", it should say "You need to create a new payments profile when you move to a new country or region. "
3. Click on "Create new profile."
4. Choose US as the country you want and click next.
5. Put in your US address and submit.
6. Now you have a US profile, but you are not done. You need to delete your Indian profile. Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings and scroll to the bottom, you will see "Payments profile status" , click "Close payments profile". This will close your Indian payment profile.
7. Pick any reason you want for closing, and continue.
8. You are not done yet. Now you need to set your US profile as your primary. Go to https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings again, at the top there's "Payments Profile for Google Pay", click on the drop down and pick your new shiny US payment profile.
And voila, now you are locked to the US. The credit for the above step to change your Google account region goes to a Chinese blogger here [ichr.me].
For anyone else wondering WTF this reply is for, I posted steps to sign up for the Indian Youtube Premium which is only $2.6 here. If you don't follow the instructions exactly, you could lock your google account to India. The above method is how you fix that.
EDIT: Turns out the India payment profile did still exist, but I had to click a button near the top right of that settings screen to see the profiles I had, then I was able to choose the India one and close it. (Sorry to be vague about the button location... it doesn't show up anymore now that I only have the single US profile)
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India YouTube address:
Survey No. 13
Hyderabad, Telangana 500084
For anyone using NordVPN, most of their "India" servers indeed aren't actually in India, but manually choosing #63 worked for me. It was just incredibly slow. But if this works out and I only get charged $2.60 next month after the trial ends, it'll be worth that effort.
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