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The original version played YouTube videos without any ads, subscriptions, next video recommendations, auto-play and other things that Google thought were neces
by bitmapbrother 9y ago
The original version played YouTube videos without any ads, subscriptions, next video recommendations, auto-play and other things that Google thought were necessary for YouTube and its content creators. Amazon was basically stealing content from its creators and not even indirectly compensating them.
>Sounds like this is Google trying to exert leverage on Amazon.
Perhaps, but why should Google help Amazon sell their products, using content from Google's properties, when Amazon blacklists all of Google's products on their store.
- mulmen 9y agoOk but when was that version released? I have been watching YouTube on FireTV for years at this point with advertisements and subscriptions. The current move mentions nothing about TOS and instead mentions Amazon's refusal to sell Google devices. Google doesn't have to help Amazon sell it's products but it would benefit both companies to cooperate instead of harming their customers to try and get a little more platform dominance. In this case both Amazon and Google are not acing in their customer interests and it will hurt them in the long run.
- bitmapbrother 9y agoWe're talking about the Echo Show here and it's the version that was shipped with it. >Google doesn't have to help Amazon sell it's products but it would benefit both companies to cooperate Until Amazon decides to start selling Google products I doubt this will end anytime soon.
- mulmen 9y agoRight, they should both cooperate, it would be better for everyone.