Let’s explain what it means that Youtube Premium will limit family plans To make sure you can’t share accounts so easily. It is a movement with which the platform emulates others such as Netflix in its attempt to create digital families.
Let’s start explaining you How it works and what changes in the family plan of YouTube Premiumthe service that gives you access to YouTube Music and YouTube without ads. Then we will tell you what can happen from now on if you try to trace the rules of this family plan.
What changes in family plans
Youtube Premium, like other digital payment services, offers the possibility of hiring a family plan. With the, You pay 26 euros and you can add up to 5 more people To the plan, so instead of paying 14 euros per month, you can divide those 26 euros between 6 people.
This makes a fairly expensive service more bearable, since you just have to convince another five people. Go out more on account. But of course, it is called a family plan and not plan of friends for something, and it is because Users who use it should live together or be members of a family unit.
This means that everyone should be using Premium YouTube from the same home. However, Google has not been enough to look too much on this until nowwhich has led to the “digital families” proliferate, which is to join 6 friendships or even people unknown to hire this plan and distribute expenses.
What changes is now YouTube wants to start forcing you that you can only share this plan with people you really live with. Come on, there are no digital families, but cohabiting people.
The idea of the platform is that if you cannot share a family plan with anyone, then there may be more possibilities that youtube premium hire on your own, and they can earn more subscribers and more money.
YouTube already made monthly reviews to verify that all members of a family plan were at the same residence or the same direction as the family administrator. What changed is that when it detected that it was not so now nothing happened, and From now on, there will begin to be consequences and expulsions of members of the family plan.
YouTube can suspend your access
What can happen from now on is that when YouTube detects that there is a member of a family premium group that does not live in the same home, Your account will be suspended For 14 days.
This means that the account will continue to belong to YouTube Premium, it will be within the family group, but will stop having the benefits that grants. Come on, youtube will have ads again and you will not be able to use YouTube Music.
YouTube will notify these users of your suspension, and will give them a chance to appeal the decision through the support website in the event that there is an error. Thus, they can confirm that they live in the same address as the family subscription administrator.
There may also be suspensions or cancellations of user accounts that have hired the service in another country. Come on, if you have created an account to hire Premium YouTube from a country where it is cheaper, they can ban your account.
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