https://qz.com/1148584/youtube-is-being-pulled-from-amazon-devices-and-consumers-are-paying-the-price/

If you tried to watch YouTube on an Amazon Fire TV this week, you probably encountered a disconcerting message: “Starting on 1/1/2018, YouTube will not be available on this device.” It directed viewers to a list of other smart TVs, media players, game consoles, and set-top boxes, where Google’s exceedingly popular video app is still available. Amazon devices were not on it.

Years of squabbling between the rival tech companies, which make and sell competing media players that carry each other’s streaming apps, has finally driven Google to the point of pulling YouTube—the US’s most-watched streaming app—from Amazon’s Fire TV and Echo devices.