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What I find jarring is the asymetry of the effect. Amazon punishes Google directly as a company: users wanting Google product only have to change the URL in th
by hrktb 9y ago
What I find jarring is the asymetry of the effect.
Amazon punishes Google directly as a company: users wanting Google product only have to change the URL in their browser.
Google in return punishes customer having already bought their Amazon device.
If the customer uses a Fire stick for intance, the only alternative to have youtube on the tv is to buy another dongle.
The level of fucking with the end customer is disproportionate.
- majewsky 9y ago> users wanting Google product only have to change the URL in their browser. For most customers, that's about as "doesn't work" as it gets.
- b4lancesh33t 9y agoNot true. Amazon punishes me every time I want to cast Amazon video to my Chromecast. I think the two situations are quite analogous.
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- glenneroo 9y agoAnd Amazon Prime Video punishes me for trying to play video on a device via VGA cable, which they say is not HDCP compatible, therefore they limit it to 480p (when the projector supports HD/1080p).
- ygra 9y agoIs that Amazon Prime Video punishing you or the wishes of content copyright holders?
- glenneroo 9y agoI suppose both. But Netflix works fine.
- Spivak 9y agoIf this really annoys you, and it would annoy me, you can buy an HDMI splitter that strips HDCP. They run from between $5-$40 depending on whether you trust some no-name brand.
- oneweekwonder 9y agoand the rest of the world just source their content via explicit means. Because they find their time more valuable then a "legal grey area"/"moral high ground"/"doing what is right".