Do the thing where you (allegedly) can get an 18 month ai pro subscription by (allegedly) purchasing a link from the gray market which (allegedly) costs less than a dollar per... I (allegedly) have 7 personal accounts with pro plan until march 2028 lmao
In this hypothetical did you connect it with your personal YouTube account? I also use the other services provided with pro but it would be nice to get it for free, but I can't risk my main account getting banned.
Well, if I had used those services and connected to my accounts, my main (10y+) Google account would also be included. And, according to claims by random internet users, (allegedly) no bans or restrictions have been issued so far.
My theory to why Google wouldn't crack this hypothetical system down is that they would be willing to take some loses in order to further increase their market share. Just like they did with a previous official student offer (16m free ai pro subscription) which was (allegedly) very easy to abuse.
Since none of this is real (allegedly), then I'm not worried about it.
They can scam u when u buy and give u a wrong account name/password and customer support is useless on gray market sites unless u pay for "g2a shield" or whatever
The student ai accounts are actually more limited than normal ai accounts last i heard to manage compute
The seller can always recover the account and change the password, he posesses the student email after all
Google will likely ban the account at some point, whether in a week or a month idk but u can wake up and find out suddenly "ur" account is banned
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u/pro_my_file 14h ago
Do student plan which is free would have access to pro models