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I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don't want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won't be able to figure out how to fix it.

I've tried using account sellers in the past but the last one I used had some issues and now I can't add my mom's YouTube account to a different family account for another year.

I am able to use a VPN to buy premium for cheaper from a different country but they require a credit card for that country. Is it possible to get a virtual debit/credit card for different countries?

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Another alternative could be Google Play gift cards from cheaper countries. You can buy Youtube Premium through it. Look up their currencies and search gift cards with that currency.

[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Correct me if this changed but you can pay for premium in India with a regular card, you just have to provide fake billing address. I've been doing this for years now so maybe I'm grandfathered into some old payment scheme but I'm fairly sure my gf did this recently too when she had to switch from Argentina.

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago

That sounds correct. AFAIK most countries in the world do not do credit card AVS (address verification service) so aside from a select few countries you would be able to enter just about any address for those country's cards.

e.g. related discussion https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/11979/in-what-countries-can-credit-card-merchants-use-address-verification or just search the internet for other sources.

The one catch is the card would have to be from that country that doesn't support AVS e.g. for India I think you are saying that you used an India based card, right?

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah as far as I know this still works.

You need to use a valid address (there are sites for generating one)

You also need to use a credit card that has never previously been used in Google with another address

[-] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Proprivacy.com give you what you are looking for (various articles on topics). Also check out https://privacy.com . Rossmann recommended.

[-] guillem@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago

Do you know of anything similar for non-US residents?

[-] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Proprivacy.com seems more like reviews for VPNs and other privacy services. They listed one service, blur that looked promising. Unfortunately, it's only available to use for US merchants.

Privacy also looked promising. However, they require users to provide their SSN and that's not something I want to give for something small like this.

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Isn't Jailbreaking a thing anymore for iPhones? In the past when I had one, I had it all the time.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Always but I abandoned iphones years ago when the cat and mouse game got to be too much. To stay consistently jailbroken requires some serious dedication.

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Stealths.net. Pay with BTC or XMR.

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