For instance, YouTube Premium charges 12€ in my home country. However, where I’m staying now they would charge less than 3€.

So, if I would like to take advantage of this, I assume I’d need to create a new Google/YT account, which would mean I’d lose all subs, playlists etc that I’ve created?

Or am I missing something here?

  • @RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    You’d probably need a billing address and credit card from the country you are trying to register in. You can probably just pick whatever (valid) address you want, but getting a credit card would be hard, and billing addresses not matching the address registered with the bank tends to trip fraud detection systems

  • @terminal@lemmy.ml
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    101 year ago

    Yes you can via a VPN and an “address” in that country. I wouldn’t recommend doing this with your primary google accounts though since you are working their system some they might retort in some way.

  • @survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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    21 year ago

    You do not have to create a new account and lose subscriptions. When I moved countries for half a year, I had to change my Google Pay address. I seem to r3member needing to cancel every single one of my subscriptions on that service, then re-sign up with them after changing my address. I may have forgot to change my address back, so I am still paying for a Youtube Premium family plan in Filipino pesos.

  • @Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    Some people use VPN to do so, which is IMO borderline fraud.

    If your main adress is in a country (even for 6-12 month) it’s normal that you pay the service at that country price (just like you pay taxes or food theire not where your from) the opposite would be a discrimination against immigrant, which at least in modern democracy is (mostly) illegal