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Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download

Posted by timothy on from the when-companies-compete dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft appears to be sticking a finger in Google's eye with the launch of its new YouTube app for Windows Phone. The app, ReadWrite has confirmed, strips out YouTube ads when it plays back videos and allows users to easily download video by way of a prominent 'download' button."

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  1. Google will block it by laing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Give them a day. I'll bet it stops working tomorrow.

  2. Re:Going to hurt videos available at some point by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not to be mean to you personally, but we don't fucking care. Just like we don't fucking care that ABC doesn't like us recording shows on our DVRs and watching them later without having to suffer through the horrible, loud, insulting-to-the-intelligence ads. We don't care that Sony and BMG want us to buy entire CDs of music, rather than download songs, or worse yet, find other music to listen to.

    So, if your profession is making videos, and your income is based on ads played during those videos on a communal website, you may want to think of a better revenue stream. This one isn't going to last, whether Microsoft can pull this off or not.

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