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Starting a YouTube Premium subscription can be far cheaper if you do it from a foreign country, sometimes even costing just a fraction of the price. In wealthier Western countries like Germany and the US, Google charges €13 or $14 a month for a subscription, while in countries like Ghana, Turkey, Pakistan and Ukraine, Premium can cost less than €2 a month. For this reason, before booking a subscription many people have been switching on a VPN to pretend the computer they’re using is in a country where the fees are cheaper. But YouTube owner Google appears to have caught on to this trick and is…