YouTube users who want to sign up for YouTube Premium have one or multiple options to do that. Officially, you get to pick between YouTube Premium, which is completely ad-free, and YouTube Premium Lite, which includes some ads in some videos.
The price of the subscription differs significantly from region to region. Some Google users have used this to their advantage until now. The main idea was to sign up for YouTube Premium in another country. Once done, you’d be able to enjoy YouTube Premium in your own country and language(s), without any restrictions or limitations.
Google is updating the terms of YouTube Premium. From September 26, 2025 onward, the terms include a new paragraph that deals with this.
Google writes:
Your use of and access to any Premium Service should be used from the country or territory where you signed up for that Premium Service. Accessing or using any Premium Service predominantly outside of that country, or attempting to misrepresent your sign-up country, is a violation of the Premium Service Terms and may result in termination of your access to the Premium Services. If you move to a new country, you may be required to re-subscribe to the Premium Services there to maintain your access, subject to the Premium Service’s availability, pricing, and feature offerings in that new country.
In simple terms, Google is explicitly disallowing the use of any means that allow customers to subscribe to YouTube Premium in a country that they do not predominantly live in. Google does not define any limits in the terms, but has published details on the YouTube Help website.
There, the company writes that it may take action if the user is “traveling for more than 30 days” or moving ” to a different country or territory. Actions may include pausing or canceling the subscription.
Additionally, Google reserves the right to take action against users who misrepresent their location, for instance by using a VPN.
To ensure we can offer the correct plans and pricing, you must accurately represent your country when you sign up for and use YouTube Premium subscription plans. If you misrepresent your location (e.g., use VPN), or attempt to circumvent access and availability restrictions, your subscription may be subject to cancellation.
It remains to be seen if Google will take action against the users who subscribed to YouTube Premium using a VPN or other means.
Now You: what is your take on this? Do you think that Google will take action and pause or cancel subscriptions from users?
Simple, their behavior like other self proclaimed entitlements will result in their own self annihilation. Google Microsoft and all other entitleists. You’re ways are coming to an end very very soon and is too late to to back into hiding, misdirection nefarious behavior. The people are sick or your money extraction methods. Much lime a mid guided president leading The People to believe you’re here to perform as a service in our behalf not yours. People will stop buying from these income Mafia members and support and encourage open participation governments and business practices. No more do called elites making decision for the life style they can’t identify with. No more segregating, no one left behind is not for military forces but for all people. Old times made decisions consisting their impact on others and the environment for seven successive generations before implementing. Microsoft and all computer companies want you to throw away perfectly good computers so you can pay to have the latest and greatest government supported spyware.
Vote by how we spend our money and time.
Best wishes towards and for us The People.
Amazon Prime did it years ago; I realized I could log in via the UK site and have access to a plethora of high quality moves/series that weren’t available in the US. That lasted for about one year. I can still order some items from the UK site, items that aren’t available on the US site. Sometimes shipping makes the purchase pointless.
Now there’s a good reason never to signup to Google’s crap in the first place.
People need to wean themselves off using Google for anything, although in some circumstances it’s unavoidable i.e. using an Android phone. Even then you don’t have to use anything Google installs on it and move all your apps to another page so that you aren’t constantly reminded of Google’s presence on the device.
Also, disable the irritating Google Assistant. You can disable it in the phone’s Settings app and just get used to not pressing the button that launches it.