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If you were ethically inclined toward such things, I've read posts online of people using VPNs to sign up for Youtube Premium from Argentina to pay a reduced rate.

I can't vouch for the effectiveness, but googling does show some people report having tried it successfully.

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I share my US family plan with friends in the UK. Their account would be banned occasionally. So, Google is probably aware of this hack, it's just they are not enforcing it too seriously.

EDIT: they only banned the added family member, not the account owner. My workaround is to just recreate family member account.

So I’m going to slow down my gigabit symmetric internet and route my traffic through a third party to hypothetically save $5.00/month? Wouldn’t the VPN be more expensive?

I assume this would need to happen just once during signup?

For a normal subscription, I think so, though their entitlement seems very random.

But for a family plan you may have issues adding people to the plan. I couldn’t add my girlfriend to my US family plan in Mexico for example, and it eventually booted her because it didn’t think we live together.

You don't need a VPN. The account will work without one.

This is a TOS breach for sure. One day you'll find yourself banned from all Google properties. Is it worth a few monies per month?

It's a separate account but them banning all related accounts is definitely a risk.

I use a Thai account. It works but the Google account needs to have the country set to the same one used for billing.

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