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Ok. So finally it's start making sense. Google blocked Amazon access to https://www.youtube.com/tv https://www.youtube.com/tv. So they set webview url to https:

Ok. So finally it's start making sense. Google blocked Amazon access to https://www.youtube.com/tv https://www.youtube.com/tv. So they set webview url to https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.youtube.com/ instead. Correct?

syshum 9y ago
Today it is still youtube.com/tv but Google has injected Popup that says the service will be disabled on 1/1/2018 (https://i.redd.it/g8t5z4owv5201.jpg https://i.redd.it/g8t5z4owv5201.jpg) I do not know what will happen on 1/1/2018. Redirecting to YouTube main page is likely not a very good option because the UI would be almost unusable on TV. I have seen some people suggesting the Silk Browser as a work around, I have tried it is it not very user friendly and does not work at all with the youtube/tv interface. I am likely ordering a Roku Today to see if I like them, Amazon is risking alot here, this YouTube situation may be the final straw for me (and many others I suspect). They started putting ads on the FireTV Device, they are spending a crap ton of money to get Sports I have no interest in, now YouTube is pulling out. It seems every day the FireTV ecosystem get worse and worse, time to move on i think
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  Prior to FireTV we used Roku device branded as nowtv. Someone unlawfully accessed it, either from Roku or with their permission, and disabled side-loading preventing us from using it to view family photos, local media, etc. (with Plex app, as it happens). Shame, the movie package we were buying from nowtv was excellent. In short Roku and nowtv is dead to me. Google making FireTV worse means I'm not going to buy Google - I can't endorse that behaviour - so what else is there? Just no-name android devices?? Probably I'll use a hack; presumably using a proxy to mask FireTV, or stripping UA info is going to work.

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Ok. So finally it's start making sense. Google blocked Amazon access to https://www.youtube.com/tv https://www.youtube.com/tv. So they set webview url to https:

by finchisko 9y ago

syshum 9y ago
Today it is still youtube.com/tv but Google has injected Popup that says the service will be disabled on 1/1/2018 (https://i.redd.it/g8t5z4owv5201.jpg https://i.redd.it/g8t5z4owv5201.jpg) I do not know what will happen on 1/1/2018. Redirecting to YouTube main page is likely not a very good option because the UI would be almost unusable on TV. I have seen some people suggesting the Silk Browser as a work around, I have tried it is it not very user friendly and does not work at all with the youtube/tv interface. I am likely ordering a Roku Today to see if I like them, Amazon is risking alot here, this YouTube situation may be the final straw for me (and many others I suspect). They started putting ads on the FireTV Device, they are spending a crap ton of money to get Sports I have no interest in, now YouTube is pulling out. It seems every day the FireTV ecosystem get worse and worse, time to move on i think
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  Prior to FireTV we used Roku device branded as nowtv. Someone unlawfully accessed it, either from Roku or with their permission, and disabled side-loading preventing us from using it to view family photos, local media, etc. (with Plex app, as it happens). Shame, the movie package we were buying from nowtv was excellent. In short Roku and nowtv is dead to me. Google making FireTV worse means I'm not going to buy Google - I can't endorse that behaviour - so what else is there? Just no-name android devices?? Probably I'll use a hack; presumably using a proxy to mask FireTV, or stripping UA info is going to work.