YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute

Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by g_p on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:50AM (#26992722)

Not familiar with the Roku ecosystem, but is it possible to sideload apps? On Android there are native YouTube player apps like NewPipe (which reverse engineer the APIs and work without any of the consent prompts and nagging UI), and one whose name escapes me, which is a pretty usable client to YouTube, based around the web interface (used sometimes on fire stick etc.)

I guess the underlying issue is the reliance on these large platforms (like YouTube etc), and how they can use access to their walled garden platform as a way to coerce independent commercial negotiations.

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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by simcop2387 on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:55AM (#26992767)

Sort of, not suremif it's changed but you used to be able to do this with the developer options and load a single channel with it. You'd have to unload the old one to load a new onw though.

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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by rascul on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:01AM (#26992826)

I've never used it but here are some docs

https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/getting-st...

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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by judge2020 on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:02AM (#26992848)

You can side load apps but I don’t think anyone is going to put in the work to keep a YouTube TV app up-to-date for Roku once breaking API changes happen.

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Re:YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google co... by g_p on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:50PM (#26995928)

If they were able to leverage something existing like NewPipe though (which is tracking the upstream breaking changes regularly and near-realtime), I guess the bar to doing this would be much lower though.

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