Finally Cut-off from YouTube Turkey. Anybody Else?

ABCDEFG on 20/02/2026 - 07:01
Last edited 21/02/2026 - 07:24 by 1 other user

My YoutTube Premium subscription failed to renew on its own yesterday. I went ot fix it today and I'm no longer able to purchase premium with my google account, instead I hit a page that says YouTube is unable to verify my country :(

EDIT: In case anyone finds this in future with the same issue I was able to work around it. You can renew through Payments and Subscriptions in iPhone settings. Not sure whether it will continue to renew, or if it will last out the month, but will update here either way.

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  • Martz5 on 20/02/2026 - 08:35

    How were you paying for your subscription?

    • ABCDEFG on 21/02/2026 - 07:23

      Turgame App Store cards. I managed to get it sorted by renewing through Apple subscriptions instead of YouTube itself.

  • RockCartel on 20/02/2026 - 08:43
    +4

    Desktop use Firefox and Ublock Origin plugin
    AndroidTV use Smarttube
    I'd prefer to pay a fair price for YouTube Premium but they kept increasing the price
    Now I see NZ$22.99⁠/⁠month (however Google search AI says "YouTube Premium in New Zealand costs $17.99 per month for an individual plan"). What do you see?

    • baishishun on 20/02/2026 - 09:24

      I use YouTube on my phone to play kids story to help my kids getting sleep. Should I get one Android phone to use smarttube?

      • kinetic9 on 20/02/2026 - 09:33
        +1

        Smarttube is for AndroidTV, for android phones use Youtube Revanced

      • Fantail on 20/02/2026 - 09:34

        Open youtube in Brave instead, it should block the ads. https://brave.com/download/

        Android users can install revanced for an easy ad-free app experience. https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1pebuhd/simple…

        • baishishun on 20/02/2026 - 12:03

          Thanks!

        • baishishun on 20/02/2026 - 15:36

          wow nice….just tried Brave and I don't need to buy another android phone!

      • apieceofpie on 20/02/2026 - 09:43

        If you have an adblocker on your phone, open YouTube in a browser, or use the Brave browser as someone else suggested.
        I started doing this after they started inserting an ad anytime the video was paused.

        • baishishun on 20/02/2026 - 12:03

          Thanks!

          • apieceofpie on 20/02/2026 - 13:58

            @baishishun: Additionally, to add a website URL to your iPhone homepage, open the website in Safari, tap the Share icon, scroll down, and select Add to Home Screen. That was you can have a YouTube icon and one less step to open, it does overwrite your current tab but it's rarely an issue for me.

            • baishishun on 20/02/2026 - 15:35
              +1

              @apieceofpie: wow nice….just tried Brave and I don't need to buy another android phone!

    • Frisky Grandma on 20/02/2026 - 18:40

      Student price is $13.99 I think.

      I verified with a photo of my id which is good as my uni email is cutoff

    • stardust on 20/02/2026 - 20:41
      +1

      i would agrees with you , we are struggling to buy food forget about paying for subscription . Things are so tough , i am sure youtube would make money even if its subscription was say 2 or few $ a month just like how much it costs in my native country , they are still making money why not Nz i dont understand . the only option we have is use sff linux with brave or firefox with ublock and sponser block etc .

  • Wakrak on 20/02/2026 - 09:08

    NZ YT Family Plan still going strong. $40/6 = $6.60 ea. per month. Though they're supposed to be cracking down on accounts that are not in the same household.

    • RockCartel on 20/02/2026 - 11:03

      That's a fair price.
      Message me if anyone has spare place in their plan for me.

  • txf on 20/02/2026 - 11:03
    +2

    My Youtube premium subscription through iTune India only costs about NZ$3.70 a month (₹195). You just need to open an Indian account and keep buying iTune gift card through Amazon India.

  • Everettpsycho on 20/02/2026 - 18:50

    We got thrown off Ukraine a couple of months back and been playing with vanced since. Still sceptical about linking it to my main YouTube though as don't want a ban. I wouldn't mind paying but $40 a month for a family plan is a lot. If tidal ever kick me out of Nigeria or Spotify boot me out of turkey I might change my tune and use YouTube music which would make it more cost effective.

  • saxasianguy on 20/02/2026 - 19:24

    Sharing my turkish yt acc with a friend in the UK. Youtube detected he wasn't part of the household I joked to him to appeal it and funnily enough he got access back to YT premium family 😂

  • NovaAlpha on 21/02/2026 - 04:41

    The amount of people who don't know how to block ads on Youtube or Spotify is too damn high. I read comments like this everywhere, 9Gag, Reddit, Cheapies, various forums.

    Maybe I should create a side business and just charge people to do this stuff for them. Things like, install custom ROMs, hide root from apps, modding apps to bypass licenses, and of course block ads on Youtube and Spotify, etc.

    Not a bad business idea actually, considering how many people are willing to waste their money paying $20/month just to block ads. My services will be a one-time fee.

    • ABCDEFG on 21/02/2026 - 07:20

      YouTube premium is easier to setup, use, and maintain across my ageing family members and their ageing devices than Stremio/Revanced etc are.

      • Wakrak on 21/02/2026 - 09:25

        Same here. Comes down to ease of use for the people on my family account (86yr old for example) + $6.60/month seems a reasonable price to pay (everyone just gave me $80 at the start of the year).

      • NovaAlpha on 21/02/2026 - 16:35

        It takes literally 2 minutes or less to setup Youtube Revanced on Android, no need to deal with the billing stuff, which takes time too. I mean, some people are going through the trouble of connecting to Turkey VPN just to get a discount. All of that would have taken at least a good 5~10 minutes. Revanced is literally a quick download and install, done.

        On desktop PC it takes even less time to install Ublock Origins. Objectively speaking, it's actually quicker and easier.

        • spam on 22/02/2026 - 13:36

          Do you have issue casting with Revanced? I seemed to not able to cast eventhough chromecast device seemed detected

          • kinetic9 on 22/02/2026 - 14:25

            @spam: Are you trying to cast audio or video? IIRC casting doesn't work with Revanced without some kind of workaround. I know you can cast to Smarttube if you have that installed.

          • NovaAlpha on 22/02/2026 - 23:37

            @spam: I got no issues with casting.

            You might wanna try this:
            https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1kshn7c/revanc…

            • NovaAlpha on 24/02/2026 - 21:50
              +1

              @NovaAlpha: Forgot to mention, there's actually a few variations of "Revanced" Youtube. They have different names and the one I currently use is RVX.

              There are different Revanced Managers to use, which not only finds you updated Revanced Youtube versions to download, but also Revanced patches for e.g. Reddit, Spotify (although this doesn't work now) and other apps.

              Revanced Manager Plus (com.revanced.net.revancedmanager) and Revanced Manager (app.revanced.manager.flutter) both work.

              There's also this and it works well with Shizuku:
              https://github.com/Jman-Github/Universal-ReVanced-Manager

  • notmyusername on 21/02/2026 - 15:10

    Mine was cut off as well, "subscription cancelled" with Appstore

    But it let me log back into my turkish account and just hit renew

  • Surreal on 22/02/2026 - 08:35

    I was on a gamsgo (account sharing) sub for 7 months, but google detected and cancelled that one with the money not recoverable by gamsgo.

    So I finally figured out Revanced on Android phone and smarttubenext on the TV. Wife briefly complained about the latter, but got used to it.

  • ScoobyNZ on 24/02/2026 - 20:29

    I guess I'll find out in the next day or two, as my monthly renewal is due tomorrow.

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