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Re:Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ... by nodja on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:35AM (#17152971)
This is a bad example. MS was just using the video stream directly instead of using the youtube player code that takes care of things like annotations, ads, cards, etc.

A better example is the amazon-google kerfuffle over chromecast/amazon devices. Can't recall who "started" it, but the end results is that amazon doesn't sell chromecast/google home, and google blocks youtube from amazon devices. Yes amazon initially did like MS, but eventually had a proper implementation and google still blocked it.

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Re:Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ... by pjc50 on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:51AM (#17153668)
No, it's a good example; why is the app obliged to show ads any more than browsers aren't?
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Re:Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ... by brazzledazzle on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:24AM (#17153980)
Because the browsers (users actually) are, but it’s not practical to send a cease and desist for a TOS violation to every user.
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Re:Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ... by trothamel on Friday May 25, 2018 @02:41PM (#17156712)
No, they're not. User choice over what a browser loads has been part of the web from the very beginning.
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