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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
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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
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jnelsoninjax
Mar 5, 2021
221 Posts
Echoing what others are saying about Adblock, I use it and also an extension for FF called Enhancer for YouTube which has an option built in to remove ads, also another excellent addon for FF is SponsorBlock, you know those annoying videos where either before the content or somewhere during the content they stop to tell you about who is sponsoring them. Well, SponserBlock removes that (skips it in the video) and it also has a way for you to report the beginning of a sponsored segment and the end of it, and then submit it, so that others may benefit from it as well.
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Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Joined Jun 2010
Mar 5, 2021
ripper82
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Quote from VanHagar :
How did you sign up family members after? I follow email invitation link but it says they are in different country yet on YouTube it shows all locations as US? Any help with this would be appreciated
Follow the "Fix" in this comment to switch your account back to the US:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=145786816&postcount=252
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Joined Jun 2010
Mar 5, 2021
ripper82
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Quote from shortyman24 :
I gave solutions for IOS (requires jailbreak) / fire sticks/ smart tvs devices
Quote from shortyman24 :
Free no ads for youtube

Roku/samsung tv/ other smart tvs os : Nope sorry, Get Android TV OS Stick/dongle or firestick

IOS: Requires jailbreak
"Don't use that device" is not a solution for how to use a device. And jailbreaking an iOS device just to get rid of youtube ads is more of a sledgehammer than a solution.
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Mar 5, 2021
949 Posts
Joined Aug 2018
Mar 5, 2021
VanHagar
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Mar 5, 2021
949 Posts
Quote from ripper82 :
Follow the "Fix" in this comment to switch your account back to the US:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=145786816&postcount=252
Hell yeah! This worked perfectly! Thanks a ton!
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Joined Jun 2010
Mar 5, 2021
ripper82
Mar 5, 2021
464 Posts
Quote from jnelsoninjax :
Echoing what others are saying about Adblock, I use it and also an extension for FF called Enhancer for YouTube...
Enhancer is really nice (I use it on FireFox). There are a ton of useful features.

I wish the YouTube set-top box apps had some of those features... at the very least, the ability to increase playback speed would be fantastic. A lot of YouTubers jabber on and on, so speeding them up 50% would be a quality-of-life improvement LMAO
Pro
Mar 5, 2021
905 Posts
Joined Jul 2006
Mar 5, 2021
xseanx
Pro
Mar 5, 2021
905 Posts
Quote from augie0041 :
Does anyone know if I can get the deal but wait to activate it until April when my previous trial expires? (I'm currently using a 4 month free trial that came with my Samsung s20 phone)
yes. " Offer must be redeemed by February 2, 2022"
Mar 5, 2021
3,815 Posts
Joined Sep 2006
Mar 5, 2021
PrncsNYC
Mar 5, 2021
3,815 Posts
Quote from pr1nyc1 :
This is worth it for people who watch YouTube on their TV apps. There isn't a way to my knowledge to block ads on LGs WebOS tvs.
Thank you for posting. I came to ask about that since that's what my son uses.

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Mar 5, 2021
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Mar 5, 2021
tehboogieman
Mar 5, 2021
509 Posts
Quote from pony :
As someone else mentioned "Smart YouTube TV" is the version to put on smart TVs.
Doesn't look like that works with casting, only AndroidTV devices
I'm talking about casting to Chromecasts, Nest Hubs and other GA displays and anything else that works the the cast button in the app
Mar 5, 2021
34 Posts
Joined Aug 2011
Mar 5, 2021
PH0E
Mar 5, 2021
34 Posts
Signed up just so I can have 90 days of them not asking me to try YouTube Premium.
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Mar 5, 2021
11 Posts
Joined Nov 2014
Mar 5, 2021
BleedRednBlack
Mar 5, 2021
11 Posts
Quote from cradlecomputers :
A week after I get premium......🤦
I just signed up 2 days ago...... 😭
Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Joined Oct 2009
Mar 5, 2021
SammieSocal25
Mar 5, 2021
6,759 Posts
Quote from shortyman24 :
Well there could be malware apps on the Google play store as well and they get tons of downloads before google removes them.

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.
Just because the Vanced apk is on the official site, that doesn't mean it won't have malware or a tracker.
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Mar 5, 2021
43 Posts
Joined Nov 2015
Mar 5, 2021
rustymolla
Mar 5, 2021
43 Posts
Increase ads all you want, youtube. I'm gonna be as stubborn as a mule on this one. No thanks.
Mar 5, 2021
1,809 Posts
Joined Aug 2015
Mar 5, 2021
shortyman24
Mar 5, 2021
1,809 Posts
Quote from LotusCloudLex :
Just because the Vanced apk is on the official site, that doesn't mean it won't have malware or a tracker.
Then don't use Vanced. Use NewPipe ffs or enjoy your ads. Believe what you want to believe. I rather have a possible malware then watch cancerous ads at this point.
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Mar 5, 2021
444 Posts
Joined Aug 2011
Mar 5, 2021
McNutsack
Mar 5, 2021
444 Posts
Haven't seen a Youtube ad in 10 years. I'm not even doing anything special, just using 2 of the most popular ad blocker plug-ins that took 2 seconds to install. Maybe I'm missing something, there's no way people actually pay for this service if all it offers is an ad free experience?
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Mar 5, 2021
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Mar 5, 2021
ravindran.mani
Mar 5, 2021
96 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.
I am using 2 (ghostery and Adguard )and works 100% on chrome. you need to configure little bit on ghostery to block everything.
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