Google Removes YouTube off Amazon Echo Show

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Reported by the Verge, Google has pulled the plug on YouTube access through the Amazon Echo Show. The Echo Show is Amazon's latest smart speaker in a 7 inch frame which features Alexa for voice control. Alexa will currently notify users that "Google does not support YouTube on Echo Show." Google states that the removal is due from a violation of the terms of service to the YouTube API.

Google made a change today at around 3 pm. YouTube used to be available to our shared customers on Echo Show. As of this afternoon, Google has chosen to no longer make YouTube available on Echo Show, without explanation and without notification to customers. There is no technical reason for that decision, which is disappointing and hurts both of our customers.
 
Amazon should take their servers and make an alternative to Youtube's service that requires a Prime account. That will make Google's executives cry as that means that Youtube should have been making money hand over fist for all of these years.
 
Was just listening to the CNBC report on this. Bottom line, going to get worse as more companies create their own version of things others have and then block competitors from using their toys. Much like the proliferation of streaming services and the corresponding required apps for each service.
 
Folks like Google need to have an awakening like Microsoft did a few years back in that they realised its not about commanding a specific platform its about having your software and services on as many different platforms as possible whether your own or competitors. Let the consumers decide what works for them.
 
JosiahBradley said:
Amazon does worse. You can't watch any prime content on Chromecast. Fuck em both.
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If they allowed each other to advertise on their platform I'm sure it would be allowed. They don't, so it's smart business.
It's the same as Google forcing Apple users to buy YTRed to play audio in the background, a replacement for loss of ad dollars.

Apple and Amazon, doesn't allow any competing products to be advertised in their store or devices. So Google pulls the free version of YT and creates YTRed to recover lost revenue.
It's smart.
 
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Sooo....Amazon claims it has no idea why it happened, and Google states it's been in talks with Amazon the whole time and its over a TOS violation and even stated it in the link above...Amazon would do the exact same thing if the roles were reversed.
 
cageymaru said:
Amazon should take their servers and make an alternative to Youtube's service that requires a Prime account. That will make Google's executives cry as that means that Youtube should have been making money hand over fist for all of these years.
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Amazon Video is not available on Android TV. (except for the nvidia shield)
 
Probably a fight over Google not having access to Mic & Camera or Amazon wanting in on the data mining from that. I could see YT basically streaming or doing a hangout and duplicating the Echo's Show service on Amazon's hardware which is subsidized by offering that service itself and cutting Amazon out of the picture.
 
This is about Amazon bypassing ads on their device, effectively giving their customers YTRed subscription level access without paying for it.

It's what got Microsoft into trouble when they created a knockoff YouTube player for winphone: they bypassed ads, so Google served a C&D.

It's pretty simple - if Amazon wants to provide an ad-free YT experience they'll have to pay for it. Amazon would demand the same if roles were reversed. In fact Amazon are complete shits about where they allow Amazon video.
 
All these companies having a giant pissing match about providing content is the reason why we root and jailbreak and use work arounds that end up costing them more money.
 
monkeymagick said:
Reported by the Verge, Google has pulled the plug on YouTube access through the Amazon Echo Show. The Echo Show is Amazon's latest smart speaker in a 7 inch frame which features Alexa for voice control. Alexa will currently notify users that "Google does not support YouTube on Echo Show." Google states that the removal is due from a violation of the terms of service to the YouTube API.

Google made a change today at around 3 pm. YouTube used to be available to our shared customers on Echo Show. As of this afternoon, Google has chosen to no longer make YouTube available on Echo Show, without explanation and without notification to customers. There is no technical reason for that decision, which is disappointing and hurts both of our customers.
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LOL, at least one of those two customers using the Echo Show must be pissed today!
 
HockeyJon said:
Don't be evil....
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Or just don't be a doormat. One megacorp wants to bypass another megacorp's ads on their devices, they'll have to pay for the privilege.

And it should be Amazon that ponies up, not Echo Show customers.
 
I wouldn't mind getting an Echo Show for my kitchen. I like the Echo platform. Take away YouTube videos, the appeal of the Show drops considerable. Any idea how many people own the Show? I didn't bit as its expensive and I wasn't sure how useful it would be. If I could get one for $120, I'd bite.
 
The Kitchen is just about the only place I'd consider a device like this to be useful, if you don't already have a tablet-on-a-dock (meaning you already can set it to hands-free voice activation) in there already.......but with this kind of bullshit happening, and the fact that I really don't want listening devices in my home beyond the cells and tablets that I just ASSUME are always listening and collecting data anyhow, I decided to pass. Plus, Gen 1. This blows, since YouTube is just about the only go-to service that makes sense there. "Alexa, show me videos on how to stop arterial bleeding from a sloppy bagel cutting technique"...etc.
 
Huji said:
If you think Amazon isn't capable of being "evil", hoooo' boy -- You're so very wrong.
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Because that's totally what I said. Because I'm some kind of Amazon "fanboy" with a hate on for Google. Because I can't call Google out on their "mission statement" for every blatant violation of their supposed philosophy. Got it. I see how this works.
 
When two big competing companies get into a pissing match....we all lose....sadly this crap only continues to happen.
 
Lul, Amazon saying it hurts both of their customers, as if they give a flying fuck about that. Totally different from when Amazon nuked the Apple TV and Chromecast off their site (including marketplace sellers) in 2015 right????
 
britjh22 said:
Lul, Amazon saying it hurts both of their customers, as if they give a flying fuck about that. Totally different from when Amazon nuked the Apple TV and Chromecast off their site (including marketplace sellers) in 2015 right????
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If Amazon didn't do that along with other things following it, they wouldn't be in their current position. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google need each other.
 
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