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if you get youtube premium it should work fine 😬
if they did not change it
on your phone, does it also not work in browser if you are logged in?
Thing is, even with how bafflingly evil Google is, the one corporate service I could see myself paying for is the YouTube subscription. I use the phone app a lot, it would make sense for me.
The problem is that they’re notoriously ban-happy with paying VPN users, due to some of them using their exit countries to pay less for a service. Thing is, if I tried to pay for premium from a country I’d exit from, I’d be paying more compared to where I am. I’m perfectly content overpaying slightly for a few things online with this situation, I don’t buy much, I’m fine. I also don’t know where the line is. If I pay for my account with a card from my IRL location, using the pricing for said location, will I get my account suspended after I jump back on the VPN? It’s not like they’ll publicly announce a clear breakdown of what is and isn’t okay.
Google knowing I use a public VPN on Google services is not an issue for me. I don’t do anything sketchy, I really just want an uncensored internet out of the eye of my ISP.
I can not garantuee you anything, and it could be possible that things just changed in the last months. But i think until atleast around march i had been using youtube premium + mullvad without any problems. But the vpn was set to the country i live in... (i then switched to newpipe and no vpn for youtube)
Imagine paying them because they are so greedy they won't allow you to protect your privacy.
Crazy shit!
well personally i dont think youtube premium is that bad, considering like it is not really that expensive (i mean compared to my time on youtube then, or like compared to the scam of having to pay for playing online on xbox), and the creators do get money from it
But like i stopped because i did not want to give google and youtube anymore money because the app had so many things that annoyed me, things that had to be bad on purpose, and like i dont want to pay someone that makes things shitty for me on purpose.
so blocking vpns generally is just another step for them in keeping making things worse j guess