Google blocking payments for youtube premium no matter what payment method i use

[Kyle Crane]

This is incredibly frustrating. I've been using YouTube Premium for the past three years because it's unbearable to use YouTube without it.

Since around June 2022, I've had to manually purchase Google Play codes to make payments, as none of my credit or debit cards work with their system.

Today, I couldn't even do that, and now my whole family is bombarded with an absurd number of ads on YouTube because Google has introduced some weird issue when trying to pay.

This is just awful as when i click on the "FORM" thingy it opens nothing
what am i supposed to do
heck irctc has a call support thing ,meanwhile its a pain to do that for google or something
jeez

 

[Kyle Crane]

i just deleted my whole family group thing and tried to buy premium from my second account but guess what it shows the same error

 

[Kyle Crane]

i have no idea whats causing this

 

[pothi]

May be unrelated, but direct quote from Join or leave a family on Google - Google For Families Help

You can only change family groups once per year. If you join or create a new family group, you won’t be able to join another one for 12 months.

 

[Kyle Crane]

i will wait till tomorrow and then try this one i guess

 

[Kyle Crane]

its been 24 hours since i have submitted my aadhaar card to google for some verfication or something and still i cant buy youtube premium

i had no choice but to buy using Apple which is costing me 389rs a month instead of 299rs

 

[Kyle Crane]

atleast now i can use youtube on my phone without watching some prawn ad or something

 

[Sushubh]

I find out tomorrow if my play balance is going to waste as well

 

[Kyle Crane]

You know google said if u dont reply to the id verification we will suspend ur account

A year ago, one of my favourite YouTubers said that do not trust Google if you want cloud storage and make your own NAS , because Google can delete your account at any time or change any policy

I got to realise that and first hand lol

No way, I am letting Google/Microsoft/Apple hold me hostage and delete my data

 

[Skye]

@Kyle Crane Yeah, that's true for every cloud storage I suppose. Don't completely rely on them, especially not for sensitive data.

Also, have you tried to get in touch with them via chat? (if that was possible)

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Zuke yes, I did contact Google via chat and they gave me very unsatisfactory answers like wait for 24 to 48 hours

I asked him would Google delete my data

-He said that’s right

I replied, what do you mean that’s right?
Then I asked would or wouldnt ?

-Then he said wouldnt


That was just weird.