What's your take on the ongoing feud? Amazon is accessing YouTube using a webview. How can Google block access to an open website and still say that their motto is 'Dont be evil' when it comes to product decisions
Can YouTube.com be accessed from firetv web browser?
How does it matter that the application making a request is a browser or a webview as long it is rendering a fully featured version of YouTube and allowing the user to perform all operations as a regular browser?
I don't think denying the users of firetv, the convenience of accessing YouTube from a firetv app is same as blocking the website from firetv web browser.
Amazon is an open website but google can’t sell their products on it. Sketchy territory
I don't think the two are the same. Blocking amazon.com for users using chrome would be a better example. However Amazon doesn't do that. Amazon isn't blocking customers access to the website. I'm talking about open internet without censorship. Google blocking customers accessing the website is a direct form of internet censorship
If you already know the answer, why are you asking questions? Low bar bro https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-eu-antitrust-violations-over-shopping-searches/amp/
Yawn
I'm pretty sure it's a bunch of pm's battling out their egos to see who wins. Sad part is it's a lose-lose situation for everyone involved (including the customer).
Just install Kodi and be done with it.
Download it as an apk with the downloader app from amazon store.
According to HN, the reason why it happened was because Amazon was blocking sales of Google products on its ecommerce platform.
It’s pretty simple actually. Amazon is trying to push us out of a market segment with cheap and petty tactics, instead of competing on the merits of their product alone. Hardly surprising that Google decides to return the favor?
Alexa is your turf?
Blocking competing Google products on Amazon.com (and regional variants) is very cutthroat -- it is what appears to have sparked this issue. The Amazon ecommerce is the largest of its kind in the West. But both companies are guilty.
I don't buy Google's "no evil" bs, but Amazon talking about openness is a tad funny. This is basic tit for tat business fight. Neither player here is about openness or freedom. Amazon doesn't support Fire TV on Googlecast. And it built a YouTube app surreptitiously without Google's consent or even informing it. They pulled it, so now Amazon is trying to run it in a webview. And Amazon doesn't sell Google's devices that compete with its own. Coming to the issue at hand, even in a pure world, Google does have an excuse to pull access to these devices. Your device is overlaying voice controls on the browser. Open website doesn't mean let anyone access it for any purposes. Hypothetically, if someone is scraping my website for plagiarism, I've right to thwart them by limiting their access. Or if some browser overlays its own ads covering up the website's, the website has a right to disrupt that browser.
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Hypocrisy. https://www.google.com/takeaction/action/freeandopen/index.html
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