title: “Buying YouTube Membership (Turkey Region)” tags: [] slug: a609180e date: 2022-10-11 00:47:28 summary: “How to subscribe to YouTube in the Turkey region: purchase flow, caveats, and money‑saving tips.”

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YouTube India/Turkey are now geo‑locked and require locally issued bank cards. If you have a card, continue with the tutorial; otherwise consider a family plan with others.

Watching YouTube is a high‑frequency activity for me, but the free tier has too many ads. Surge/AdBlock helps but has side effects, so I opted for a paid membership.

Membership pricing varies by region. India is quite affordable: personal plan (₹129 ≈ ¥11.23 RMB)/month! Purchasing via India has some hurdles — here’s my process.

Prerequisites

• VISA dual‑currency card for payment
• Indian proxy with a native IP
• Google account

Indian proxy

If you already have an Indian proxy, skip this. Otherwise, rent an Indian cloud VM.

Rent an Indian VM

Recommended providers with per‑minute billing:

1. Vultr
2. DigitalOcean

Not recommended

• lightnode — IP may still be recognized as HK

Set up the proxy

1. If you use Surge, prefer SSH proxy; if it doesn’t work, configure a proxy chain.
2. If SSH proxy isn’t supported, set up a proxy manually: https://alanhe421.github.io/v2ray-docker

After setup, confirm your public IP geolocates to India.

Visiting YouTube should show “India”, and membership pricing should be in INR.

Payment

Once you’re on an Indian IP, you can subscribe and pay. Updating payment methods later isn’t strictly tied to Indian IP (e.g., HK IPs worked); the Indian IP is mainly needed for activation.

Change Google account country/address

https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/1/home/addressbook

Join a YouTube family plan

If you’re joining a family plan, note: for Indian memberships you need to click the activation link under an Indian IP, otherwise activation fails.

Premium benefits

My must‑have reasons for Premium:

1. 无广告
2. 背景播放

Final Thoughts

YouTube Premium is worth the hassle.