I am an Indian settled in Canada. I have been using YouTube Premium (family) from India for the last 3 years. I was already in Canada when I first enrolled.
Recently, I made a mistake to cancel the subscription. As soon as I realized, I went to renew the subscription but I keep getting the message “we couldn’t verify your country”.
I already tried using VPN from India as well as deleting my Canadian payment profile on google but I still keep getting this error message.
What should I do? There are 5 other family members who are depending on my to find a solution as I am the family account manager.
Note: I want to renew at India prices as they are considerably cheaper than Canadian prices.
Google has been cracking down on a lot of tricks. tried all sorts of countries after my 1y turkey subscription recently ended.
VPN to Ghana + opening Youtube in incognito mode in the browser was the most promising however as soon as I wanted to pay it gave me an error message that payment method had to be from the billing country. in some other thread someone said it worked ith ther UK card but I couldn’t get it to work.
maybe you know someone in india who can subscribe to a family plan & add you to it?
I have the same issue with Australia, the only way I have found to bypass this is if the payment is initiated in India, again this is due to the fact I believe that as soon as Google detects a connection that might be a VPN it rather just stop the entire payment process. I had someone from India to start the payment again.
Contact YouTube Premium support. They don’t like cross-country subscriptions, so you might have to get YouTube Premium with Canadian currency now that the subscription geolocations have changed.
My Ukraine subscription ended today bcs youtube detected it wasn’t a Ukrainian CC, so I tried multiple other countries: Vietnam, Turkey, Ghana, Philippines, and all required to use the country CC sadly
Tha last one I tried is Japan, with 7.5€ a month, better than 13€ so I’m happy, but still
I had Indian YouTube Premium. I was paying with my American credit card. Everything was good for a year but today I got email
YouTube Premium memberships based in India require a form of payment issued in India.
To maintain your membership, please update your form of payment to one issued in India before 5 December 2024. If you do not update your form of payment, your membership will not renew automatically and you will lose access to your YouTube Premium benefits.
Can anyone help me out ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I would be extremely grateful because I don’t have cable or any other subscription. YouTube was my only source of watching content.
Hopefully they end up losing money as a result of the shenanigans. For example I refuse to pay twenty bucks for it id rather have the ads. Now they get nothing
its actual robbery if they can offer it for <£1 in other countries
Lol it’s not a robbery, it’s called currency value. The mugrants in those countries also claim it’s a robbery winning £100/m then they invade the UK and you complain? Hypocrite much
Got the same email today. I refuse to play 16 bucks for the same service as one gets for 1…so I’m trying to follow some comments here and try to set it to Serbia
just the sub. “we dont believe your location was accurate”
so instead now they get nothing. the UK regional pricing is mental.
£1.90 from ukraine a month.
£12.99 a month from UK.
i get that some places can only afford less, but scamming the rest of us is another thing.
As it seems no VPN country works, ill go back to adblocking.
Thanks for this, been trying for the last 2 hours since my Ukraine one got cancelled after 2 years. Serbia was the only one that has worked so far. A bit more pricey than I was used to, but still loads cheaper than the UK. Cheers!
