If you watch enough YouTube, you might consider paying for YouTube Premium. With it, you get to watch videos ad-free, download content for offline playback, and access YouTube Music Premium—though there are ways to bypass ads and download videos without it. While the standard sub is $13.99, families can upgrade to Premium Family for $22.99 per month, which supports up to six accounts on one plan—but you're going to want to make sure those accounts all belong to people who live in your house.
That's now changing. Android Police reports that YouTube is now cracking down on Premium Family accounts that allow users from outside the household. In fact, YouTube is reaching out to users who have joined a Family Plan that belongs to someone they do not live with. The message reads as follows:
YouTube doesn't appear to be rolling out widespread enforcement at this time, though it gives us a glimpse at how they're handling it. Once they find that your account is out of compliance, they'll give you two weeks of use, before pausing your membership. They won't kick you out of your family group, nor will they stop your ability to watch YouTube, but you'll lose all Premium benefits, including ad-free videos, downloads, and YouTube Music Premium.
Can you get around this YouTube Premium Family crackdown?
See, with services like Netflix, this monthly check-in isn't necessarily automated. Instead, you simply need to access your account from the household once a month to be in compliance. So for September, you could take your iPad or laptop to the account owner's house, stream a bit, and be set until October.
YouTube doesn't go into a ton of detail into how these check-ins actually work, so there's no harm in streaming from the account owner's house to see if that keeps you in compliance.
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