YouTube cancels premium subscriptions with fake locations

If you used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to purchase YouTube Premium in a country where it’s cheaper, your subscription may have expired. In the past few days, many People who Those who used this trick reported that their subscription was automatically cancelled because previously reported Android Police,

This solution involves using a VPN to change your location to a country where YouTube Premium is available at a lower price. For example, YouTube Premium costs $13.99 per month in the US for ad-free access to videos, YouTube Music, and offline downloads, but in Argentina it’s just $1.05 per month (869 ARS). But now, it looks like YouTube is cracking down on subscribers who don’t actually live in these countries.

In a statement VergeYouTube spokesman Paul Pennington says the company has “systems in place” to determine the locations of its users. “In cases where the signup country does not match the country where the user is accessing YouTube, we are asking members to update their billing information to their current country of residence,” Pennington says. He did not say, however, whether YouTube has begun automatically canceling subscriptions using spoofed locations.