I'm in the US, and they would pay with a card from their home country

YouTube is getting increasingly aggressive in enforcing its location rules for YouTube Premium, especially for family plans. Subscriptions are now being cancelled if family members live in a different country than where the plan is billed even if the family owner lives in the correct country.

Previously, users could often resubscribe after such cancellations. Now, if the issue lies with the family members locations, the family plan is permanently removed from the owners account, with no option to resubscribe.

This stricter enforcement mainly seems to affect users in lower-cost countries, while pricier regions remain unaffected.

Hey guys wondering if you can help me! So I made a separate dummy YouTube/ gmail account, turned on my VPN to Russia and purchased YouTube premium for family. However, when I try to invite my actual YouTube account I get hit with the above error. Anyone know how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, my dad is thinking about sing for YouTube Premium, he lives in Brazil, one of my brothers and I live in different countries in Europe. If he sing for the Family one, could we use it? Thanks

Hi everyone I managed to get back to youtube Premium Argentina, but I have problem adding other people to my plan because they don't live in the same region. Does anyone manage to share your account with other people outside of your "region"?

Hi, my brother is having YouTube premium subscription with me as a member in it. Recently I got a mail from YouTube saying my services will be paused because of this reason. How should I overcome this?

As many people have noted here, YouTube recently cracked down on Family Plan Premium Memberships where the five family members did not live in the same building, with Premium benefits being "paused" permanently. For some cancelled subscribers, the family members were their actual biological families but who live in other locations; for others (such as myself) the "family" merely consisted of five random people who mutually agreed to form a "household" and share the cost of Family Premium Plan.

However, no one seems to know how restrictive the new geolocation requirements are. Some people claim the cancellations only hit "Families" where the members were spread out across multiple nations -- but if all "Family members" were in the same nation, then it was OK. Others speculate that it is more on a regional basis -- such that (for example) is you were all in the same US state, then the memberships weren't cancelled, but if people are spread out to different states (but still within the same nation), then they would get cancelled. And some people claim that you literally all have to be in the same building, or your Family Premium benefits will be cancelled.

Which is true? I don't know. But maybe we could try an experiment:

If people were willing to start open "Family" accounts that were regionally restricted, maybe they would fly under YouTube's radar and be allowed. So for example, I live in California, and if someone else who also lived in California were to create a Family account with a Premium membership, and then invite in (sharing the cost) four other (random) people, with the only restriction being that they all live in California. Then the "family" would all apear to be in the same general area, and YouTube would allow it. And if that didn't work, we could get more geographically restrictive, and limit potential members to (in my case, for example) the San Francisco Bay Area, or wherever your city/region is.

I don't have the tech know-how to be the one wh starts a group, but I would be willing to join a newly created California-only Family group with Premium membership.

And if other people wanted to try similar experiments in other locations (e.g. an Ireland-only family, New York-only family, etc.), I'd love to hear the results if it worked or not.

Any thoughts?

Good morning everyone. I've been reading recently that I can possibly get Youtube Premium for a good bit cheaper by signing up through another country. I already have a VPN, so switching to a different country isn't a problem. My question is this: If I already subscribe to the Premium Family plan from the USA, would it be possible to cancel that account, and re-sign up from India? I'd like to use the same Google/Youtube account if possible.

Hello guys, I am planning on purchasing a YouTube Premium Family subscription to share with my mom and dad, however, I am currently in USA and they are in Colombia. Would the subscription work even if they are in another country? Thank you so much.

My brother was recently signed up on a UK family plan and I couldn't joint for some reason but I had my own paying for an Indian account and was fine. I got the email to say I wasn't allowed to do that so l'm currently paying full price.

My brother also got the email and was able to successfully sign up with a Polish account. Other people have joined this family with a normal UK account but everyone I try it just says this error below.

I have done the whole switching account and payment method to Poland but still says this. Any ideas of ways around this or does it look like my account is flagged or something?

Family plan from cheaper country hack worked for 11 months. I had used a payment card from that country. Damn.

Is there any ways to get around this now ?

YouTube is giving me triple the amount of ads now making up for the ads that I missed while on premium

The price for subscriptions has increased in over 10 countries. In Switzerland, the Family plan now costs the equivalent of 39.88 USD.

Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium:

• Single: From €11.99 to €13.99

• Family: From €17.99 to €25.99

Switzerland:

• Single: From 15.90 CHF to 17.90 CHF

• Family: From 23.90 CHF to 33.90 CHF

Denmark:

• Single: From 119 DKK to 139 DKK

• Family: From 177 DKK to 259 DKK

Sweden:

• Single: From 119 SEK to 149 SEK

• Family: From 179 SEK to 279 SEK

Norway:

• Single: From 119 NOK to 169 NOK

• Family: From 179 NOK to 269 NOK

Czech Republic:

• Single: From 179 CZK to 209 CZK

• Family: From 269 CZK to 389 CZK

Singapore:

• Single: From 11.98 SGD to 13.98 SGD

• Family: From 17.98 SGD to 27.98 SGD

United Arab Emirates:

• Single: From 23.99 AED to 26.99 AED

• Family: From 35.99 AED to 48.99 AED

Malaysia

• Single: From 17.90 MYR to 20.90 MYR

• Family: From 33.90 MYR to 41.90 MYR

Saudi Arabia

• Single: From 23.98 SAR to 26.99 SAR

• Family: From 35.98 SAR to 49.99 SAR

Indonesia:

• Single: From 59,000 IDR to 69,000 IDR

• Family: From 99,000 IDR to 139,000 IDR

Colombia:

• Single: From 17,900 COP to 20,900 COP

• Family: From 26,900 COP to 41,900 COP

Thailand:

• Single: From 159 THB to 179 THB

• Family: From 299 THB to 359 THB

If you recognized another country, just let me know and I will add it. Thanks for your help!

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.

Anyone with any knowledge about this. Considering purchasing YT Premium Family, My wife resides at the same address but travels to other Countries will she still be able to use her premium acct? No commercials etc appreciate your advice or suggestions.

I'm family manager of our YouTube premium family plan. If I delete the family group, will my members face the 12-month restriction before joining another family group?

Or if I remove my members from the group, will they face the 12-month rule?

We are not able to continue the family group anymore due to the "same household" rule. Is there a way for my members to join a new plan without waiting for 12 months?

Any comments are appreciated!

Has anyone tried this and is it possible with no issues? Will Youtube Music work if for example there's 3 members then 1 member went to a different country? The owner stays in the same country of billing.

Since the recent crackdown on adblocks, I figured I'll finally buy a premium subscription. I want to buy a family plan to share with my gf (whose also abroad) and my family. However, currently I'm studying abroad, and my family is in another country. Can I still share the subscription with my family? Do they need to constantly use a VPN when watching Youtube? And if I want to buy the subscription in my country's currency (cheaper haha), do I and my gf need to constantly use VPN?