Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Google to pull YouTube from the Fire TV on January 1st, 2018


The YouTube app on the Fire TV, much like the Echo Show implementation, is simply a wrapper of the YouTube “leanback” website. This means that Google will essentially be blocking a public facing website from a subset of users based not on how the service is displayed, but how they feel about the device’s manufacturer. That’s quite a disturbing decision. It’s not much different from if Google blocked YouTube for everyone using Firefox to punish Mozilla or Safari to punish Apple. - AFTVnews [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]

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