On: Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV

[strombofulous]

Google blocked it because Microsoft added in a feature that would skip the ads that play before vidoes. This broke Google's TOS, so Google revoked Microsoft's key.

[brudgers → strombofulous]

Youtube would not work in Windows Phone 7's version of Internet Explorer either. Odds are it didn't affect you at the time.

[abrowne → brudgers]

Didn't they also block other services, like Google Maps, too? (IIRC there were webview wrapper apps that faked the user-agent.)

[brudgers → abrowne]

I think Maps was still usable through the browser unlike YouTube. And I don't think there was ever an official Maps app. At the time Microsoft's own maps were about as good...or rather Maps was often equally bad in equally surprising ways.

[norlys → brudgers]

It wasn't working. At least on my device MS edge became super buggy and unusable whenever I went to maps.

[flukus → brudgers]

Was youtube still flash based at the time? If so then that would make sense.

[brudgers → flukus]

It had been serving it the WP7 app until Google started blocking it. At the same time Google blocked the WP7 browser on YouTube. There was nothing technical. Google was still serving up YouTube videos to iPhones.