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I love this idea because finally there is some force which can make me less watching youtube and I certainly am not going to deepen my profile with a bank credentials (but I would pay for premium with crypto if it will be possible)

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> deepen my profile with a bank credentials (but I would pay for premium with crypto if it will be possible

Bull fucking shit. There are services like Privacy.com which allow you to pay without deepening your profile.

I am not an US citizen. And even if I would, I do not believe that privacy.com does not give anything and everything to FATCO.

What crypto are you using that you're not worried about just being tracked on-chain? XMR?

I use Bitcoin + several wallet.dat each of those is bond to a different VPN. It means that I absolutely do not care about on-chain tracking on each wallet.dat because I am sure that nobody can tie my different addresses to a single person.

This seems quite unnecessary and over-complicated. Trust me, Google will have you tracked one way or the other, so it might be better to just grab a prepaid visa gift card for your Youtube Premium subscription and save yourself the trouble. Any grocery or convenience store can sell those to you with untraceable cash with ease.

Not everyone lives in the US, buddy

> Not everyone lives in the US

Nor do I. Banks themselves in the EU and India offer virtual cards. There's also Wise with much wider availability.

I won't pay for YouTube because they don't accept magic jellybeans is a bullshit excuse and you know it.

Yes, they cards are virtual but all of your KYC data is passed to the card network whenever you make a payment. Your name, address, etc.

source: I work on card payments

There is a workaround to this that is quite simple. Get a prepaid visa gift card. You can make up whatever nonsense info you want on those and pair that with the subscription. Then once the balance runs out, get another card and repeat the process. Problem solved.

Nice, then google decides to block your account one day for an unspecified reason and they are asking you for a drivers licence with those credentials to let you back in.

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