#google briefly broke #amazon’s workaround for #youtube on Fire TV
January 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Google and Amazon aren’t getting any closer to ending their bitter feud. In fact, today the user-hostile fight between them is only getting worse. YouTube briefly appeared to have blocked the Silk web browser on Fire TV from displaying the TV-optimized interface normally shown on large screens. As a result, trying to navigate YouTube and watch videos became a usability nightmare on Amazon’s popular streaming products.
We confirmed the TV interface wasn’t working around 5:00PM ET; by around 6PM, the TV interface had returned. The Verge has reached out to both Google and Amazon for comment.
While the TV interface was unavailable, YouTube on the Fire TV was basically a desktop computer experience. To control it, you had to browse around…