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YouTube Going Dark On Older Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the making-your-smart-TV-a-bit-dumber dept.

PC Mag reports on changes to the YouTube API, which have rendered YouTube apps inoperable on older consoles, smart TVs, and other video streaming devices. They're doing this because the old version of the API doesn't support some of YouTube's newer features. Newer devices might be able to upgrade — Apple handhelds that can run iOS 7 or later will have no problem, nor will 3rd-gen Apple TVs and devices running Google TV 3 or 4. But earlier Apple TVs and Google TVs running version 2 or earlier will be out of luck.

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  1. Re:Stripped down version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go to youtube.com/html5 and select the html5 player, it helped on my machines.