{"id":56384,"date":"2024-06-20T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c676dc6e-2fdd-4306-834b-e8a345c87e98"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T19:35:00","slug":"youtube-shuts-down-viral-hack-for-getting-a-cheaper-premium-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/youtube-shuts-down-viral-hack-for-getting-a-cheaper-premium-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube shuts down viral &#8216;hack&#8217; for getting a cheaper Premium subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"c-shortcodeImage u-clearfix c-shortcodeImage-large\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_imageContainer\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_image\"><picture class=\"c-cmsImage c-cmsImage_loaded\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/d6f868a225a70c27724691ca87d55b1ea5cfd725\/2024\/06\/20\/b0096cd2-421c-4f4d-8ee9-855d20c77556\/yt55gettyimages-1686725448.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=768\" alt=\"yt55gettyimages-1686725448\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/1cdbd91987222fab34d96286314d887390522a4a\/2024\/06\/20\/b0096cd2-421c-4f4d-8ee9-855d20c77556\/yt55gettyimages-1686725448.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1024\" alt=\"yt55gettyimages-1686725448\"><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/8b3cec4d25bce639188bb64a0f8df79bcc2a4141\/2024\/06\/20\/b0096cd2-421c-4f4d-8ee9-855d20c77556\/yt55gettyimages-1686725448.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1280\" alt=\"yt55gettyimages-1686725448\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/8b3cec4d25bce639188bb64a0f8df79bcc2a4141\/2024\/06\/20\/b0096cd2-421c-4f4d-8ee9-855d20c77556\/yt55gettyimages-1686725448.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1280\" alt=\"yt55gettyimages-1686725448\" width=\"1280\" height=\"836.25\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p> <!----><\/div><figcaption> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">NurPhoto\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the past several months, YouTube has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/home-entertainment\/are-your-youtube-videos-glitching-it-could-be-your-ad-blocker\/\" rel=\"follow\">cracking down on the use of ad blockers<\/a>, going so far as stopping videos from playing if the viewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/home-entertainment\/youtube-videos-may-no-longer-play-if-you-use-a-third-party-ad-blocker\/\" rel=\"follow\">uses an ad blocker<\/a>. This was on the heels of YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/home-entertainment\/youtube-premium-quietly-raises-subscription-prices\/\" rel=\"follow\">hiking the price of its Premium subscription without notice<\/a>&nbsp;in June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the video-sharing platform is targeting customers who are paying a lower Premium subscription price by using a popular hack. YouTube Premium, which offers ad-free viewing, the ability to download videos, and the ability to play videos in the background, currently costs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">$13.99 per month in the US<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/home-entertainment\/how-to-download-youtube-videos-for-free-plus-two-other-methods\/\" rel=\"follow\">How to download YouTube videos for free, plus two other methods<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That price varies by country, though, sometimes significantly. In Switzerland, for example, users pay over $18 per month and in the UK, a subscription is nearly $16.50 per month. On the opposite end, a subscription in the Philippines is only $2.83 per month and in Argentina, customers only pay 869 pesos, or about $1.<\/p>\n<p>Some enterprising customers have figured out that, with the help of a VPN, they can trick YouTube into thinking they reside in one of those countries and sign up for Premium under that country&#8217;s rate, slashing their Premium bill.<\/p>\n<p>This trick has worked for some time, but now &#8212; without warning &#8212; those customers are having their accounts terminated.<\/p>\n<p><!----><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your YouTube Premium membership has been canceled,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/youtube\/comments\/1di5mz5\/automatic_youtube_premium_cancellation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">a screenshot posted to Reddit<\/a> from an affected customer explained. That customer wasn&#8217;t alone, as several others reported receiving the same message.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/youtube-cracking-down-on-cheap-premium-plans-bought-via-vpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"c-regularLink\">a message to PCMag<\/a>, YouTube explained the move. &#8220;YouTube has initiated the cancellation of premium memberships for accounts identified as having falsified signup country information,&#8221; a representative wrote. &#8220;Due to violating YouTube&#8217;s Paid Terms of Service, these users will receive an email and an in-app notification informing them of the cancellation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To prevent people from utilizing this loophole in the future, YouTube will require customers to sign up with a local card tied to an address in the country on the account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/disney-schedules-disney-s-password-sharing-crackdown-heres-what-you-should-know\/\" rel=\"follow\">Disney schedules Disney+&#8217;s password sharing crackdown. Here&#8217;s what you should know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within the past year, two other giant names in streaming &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/disney-schedules-disney-s-password-sharing-crackdown-heres-what-you-should-know\/\" rel=\"follow\">Disney+<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/home-entertainment\/netflixs-big-password-sharing-crackdown-bet-pays-off-as-new-signups-keep-rolling-in\/\" rel=\"follow\">Netflix<\/a> &#8212; have each taken steps to ensure that subscribers are paying their fair share.<\/p>\n<p>Crackdowns ended up being quite successful for both Disney+ and Netflix. Will YouTube see a similar spike in people paying up, or will subscribers choose to drop YouTube Premium?<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/home-and-office\/home-entertainment\/youtube-shuts-down-viral-hack-for-getting-cheaper-premium-subscription\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some customers were paying as little as $1 per month for a service that usually costs $14 per month.<br \/>\nREAD MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zdnet-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>YouTube shuts 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