YouTube, the leading audio and video streaming leader, recently launched major regulations and adjustments to YouTube Premium members. The official recently issued a notice letter to members around the world, announcing that the “YouTube Premium Terms of Service” will be updated from September 26, 2025. The biggest highlight is the addition of “geographical regional restrictions”. In the future, the scope of use of Premium will be strictly bound to the country where you subscribe. Even users who truly immigrate to other countries for a long time must subscribe again according to local prices, which is equivalent to officially banning cross-regional users.
YouTube Premium geographic restrictions on writing terms, violators may be terminated
According to the new YouTube Premium Terms, members must agree not to provide false or misleading information to conceal their residence, and they must not circumvent the access restrictions of YouTube subscription services in any way.
YouTube explicitly states: “The use and access of Premium services are limited to the country where the subscription is. If you use it for a long time in another region or make false statements about the registered country, YouTube will be able to terminate the member’s Premium access rights.”
In other words, if the user originally completed a subscription in Taiwan but later settled in the United States for a long time, YouTube can eventually stop the account’s Premium service and require a local resubscribe to continue using it.
YouTube Premium blocks cross-regional immigration and is restricted
In the past year, YouTube has actively blocked cross-region users who have subscribed to low-priced programs through VPNs and cross-regional subscriptions (such as Turkey, India or Argentina). This update of terms has further increased, which also affects the situation of “actual immigration”, that is, even if they are actually relocated to a new country, they still have to pay again according to local prices.
Taking the Indian plan as an example, the monthly fee for local YouTube Premium in India is only about NT$78, which is a big difference compared to Taiwan’s Premium price. However, after the new regulations are on the road, if users want to continue to enjoy low prices, they can only live in India for a long time, otherwise they will not be able to continue using the original service.
YouTube stressed that the move aims to “clear various solutions, unify the norms of discounts and payment methods” and ensure fairness among members of all countries. With the update of terms, the YouTube Premium cross-regional subscription era will officially come to an end.
Will the YouTube Premium account be blocked?
As for the latest official YouTube Premium terms and content, most of them are adjusted across regions for immigration and VPNs. The official will only terminate your existing Premium membership and will not block your YouTube account.
YouTube blocks Premium cross-region content analysis
The original VPN cross-region account has the greatest impact
This time, it is not surprising that YouTube will directly adjust the Premium terms. It is mainly because it has begun to ban non-local user accounts in many different countries since last year. The most important thing is to use credit card information to check it first. Most of them send warning letters to request local relevant certificates, so that there is a way to continue to deposit and withdraw YouTube Premium services.
At that time, I sent a private message to warn me and used persuasion to notify you to update the payment method. There were still many users who directly used VPN to subscribe to YouTube Premium across regions, but the deductions continued to be unabolized. Some people even tried to use VPNs in different countries to try to subscribe across regions. This time, the official YouTube clause modification emphasized that it was necessary to prohibit exaggerating the area, which was mainly aimed at these users.
It is expected that after it starts effective on September 26, these directly subscribed to YouTube Premium accounts with non-local credit cards will be the most affected. As long as the country does not meet, membership will be terminated. Subscriptions will be continued as long as the country is changed back to Taiwan.
It is now found that foreign netizens have begun to cross-regional Poland, Kazakhstan, Chile, Ukraine, Peru, Turkey and YouTube Premium. The banned prompt has popped up since May this year, and the screen shows “Your YouTube Premium subscription has been cancelled because the country/region used is incorrect.”
Will subscription through Apple ID have any impact?
Currently, using Apple ID to subscribe to YouTube Premium membership accounts across the country, due to the extra layer of protection, the official terms of service will be affected. As for whether the system will determine that the country/region where the subscription is located is inconsistent? Everything will not be confirmed until the subsequent implementation on September 26th.
According to the official YouTube terms, it will be judged by the user browsing on the platform for a long time, which also means that the IP address may be used as detection. As for how long the detection time will be before non-national users will be triggered? You have to wait until the subsequent implementation is officially implemented before you can get an answer, so don’t be too nervous.
As for some people, can it be avoided by opening a VPN from time to time? As of now, YouTube has also begun to block VPN services such as Nord and VPN Unlimited. As long as you hang up a VPN, you may not confirm the location and cannot browse it.
Conclusion
Overall, if you are still using non-local credit cards to cross-region users of YouTube Premium, or purchase cheap Premium subscription services online, you must be mentally prepared and the Premium service usage permission will be terminated at any time.
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