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Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft by Mountain_Skies on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:57PM (#15734989)
If I'm not mistaken, it was Google who started blocking Amazon's Echo from serving YouTube content on devices with screens, so this type of anti end user behavior isn't exclusive to Amazon.
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Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft by MichaelGG on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:49PM (#15735222)
Amazon kicked this off, delisting Chromecast and Apple TVs, and lying about it.
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Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft by robbomacrae on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:00PM (#15735292)
Googles reason was "Amazon’s implementation of YouTube on the Echo Show violates our terms of service, creating a broken user experience."

I don't pretend to know what that broken user experience was.. ads blocked? No auto play next? No subscriber button? But anything along those lines would be a poor deal for YouTube. Im not a fan of either as they both engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior I just feel it isn't one sided in this case.

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Re:Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft by simcop2387 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @05:34PM (#15736338)
This started even before the echo and home devices. it started at least as far back as the chromecast and firetv stick. Possibly with devices before that too.
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