Some countries still work but its not easy anymore. Just buy or cloud phones/phone farm. Must say its less terrible then some months ago. Back then I couldn't even register a normal google play store account on my smart tv. I already thought that they would step back because this was really inconvenience.
But what I observe the last few years that they try each 2-3 months again how far they can go without loosing too much customers to competitors. But they can go far because even registering a google account with another mail gives the same issues and many people using their services such as google docs, youtube, playstore, google ads.
