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Title: YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From
the Same Address

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1643...

An anonymous reader shares a report: If you're sharing an ad-free YouTube
Premium or YouTube Music account with friends or family who live outside of
your home, you could lose your premium privileges. Customers who lose these
can still watch YouTube or listen to music with ads -- but let's be real,
it's not the same. Multiple reports have shown people who have the service
have been receiving notices that their premium service will be paused for 15
days due to violating a policy that's been in place since 2023. On its
support page, YouTube says that an account manager can add up to five family
members in a household to their Premium membership. But, the post says,
"Family members sharing a YouTube family plan must live in the same household
as the family manager."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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