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by GabrielF00 3121 days ago
Is there precedent for a company restricting access to its website by a competitor's device for competitive reasons?
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One example is when Google got the third party YouTube app removed from the Windows Store. Google had refused to make a decent YouTube port on the store, and so a very well made third party one was introduced. It had all the features that YouTube Red boasts today, but it didn't support ads. This was not because the developers were trying to make a play on Google, but because there wasn't an API to serve ads. They mentioned they were more than happy to comply, but were served a C&D and the app was killed.
I don't it's blocking the site. They're discontinuing the app. FireTV doesn't directly support web browsing at all.
Echo Show switched to showing YouTube through the web after Google blocked it the first time. Now it looks like Google is blocking the website. https://9to5google.com/2017/11/21/youtube-back-on-amazon-ech...
like how you can't view amazon prime videos from android tablets (or at least, certain versions iirc.. amazon yanked it's apk from play store. i dont recall why, but some people simply side-loaded from amazon store).
That's an app. Apps are inherently* limited to a particular OS. I'm asking if a company has restricted a website for competitive reasons.

*Not counting something like phone gap.

I think you recall incorrectly. There's an Amazon Prime Video app in the Play Store.
Now. For a period of time Amazon removed it though.
Apple Trailers on Android?
chormecast only works in chorme. amazon video doesn't support chromecast.