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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
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[–] jezebelley@leminal.space -4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I get YouTube Premium with YouTube Music for $2.60 by using ProtonVPN and connecting to Ukraine. That's all you have to do. Once you're connected to the YouTube premium website it'll display Ukrainian currency which totals to $2.60 USD. You can subscribe to channel memberships in the same manner for $1.60 instead of $5.

I'd say $2.60 is a killer deal for adfree YouTube on everything and a full music streaming service.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

because of People like you, the Services in these kinds of Countries gets more expensive for the People that actually live there.

[–] jezebelley@leminal.space 1 points 10 months ago

Is this actually true? I just did a search to find any source stating this, but I couldn't find anything.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you pay for it? If I try to use a visa cc for an acct outside the US they demand I have a bank acct in that country and verify a deposit AMT.

I had one in Argentina for ages, until they pulled this trick

[–] jezebelley@leminal.space -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I just used my credit card. Worked fine. Checked the statement and I was charged $2.60.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tried Ukraine, VPN was up, local address there, it just blocked me from paying with my US VISA card :/

[–] CmdData@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't that idea fall apart when you get to the payment method? The payment service knows in which country your bank account or PayPal account is registered that isn't IP dependent right?

[–] jezebelley@leminal.space 0 points 10 months ago

Nope. I just used my credit card. Charged $2.60.