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Google services between Germany and Malaysia might be essentially the same. But that might not be the case if Google decides to relocate you out of the United States. Even those US Citizens who live in a USA territory like Puerto Rico or US Virgin Islands constantly receive a variant of the message 'this service is not available in your country'. Be aware that as a US territory, Puerto Rico and USVI are subject to the same federal laws (and financial system) as any other state, so technically they aren't foreign/alien. But a private company like Google can choose to underserve what is not strategic for them. Google uses either your IP address or the postal address of your payment method to find out that you don't live in the 50 states (or DC). When launching some services, Google starts in US (or course), excluding their territories. Then they expand to other countries, again skipping the United States territories, which continue receiving the 'this service is not available in your country' message' practically forever. This happened with Google Music. Also YouTube videos apparently market for USA market only were not playable here. Google controls the YouTube platform and there's no excuse for not negotiating including all the US territories in the definition of USA for YouTube uploaders.

Recently they made YouTube Premium available in this market. And with the YouTube Music change, this also came included. However, I don't know if they fixed completely fixed the issue of viewing USA only videos from here.