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Amazon backs down in Google streaming spat
bbc.com ^ | 15 December 2017 | BBC

Posted on 12/16/2017 1:29:14 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Amazon has started selling Google's Chromecast devices two years after it originally removed them from its store.

Amazon said it removed them to end customer confusion about which services were available on which device.

Analysts said it was because they let people watch services that competed with Amazon's Prime Video.

Google retaliated by blocking access to YouTube on some Amazon gadgets and threatening further restrictions.

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1 posted on 12/16/2017 1:29:14 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

All of this while “net neutrality” was in place.


2 posted on 12/16/2017 1:42:09 AM PST by Ingtar
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To: Berlin_Freeper

So is it over? Can I keep getting youtube on Amazon?


3 posted on 12/16/2017 2:53:45 AM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Adder

Only Control-LEFT content will be allowed.


4 posted on 12/16/2017 4:14:01 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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Only Control-LEFT content will be allowed.

Alt-Left is also allowed.
5 posted on 12/16/2017 4:18:39 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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