Users suffer from Amazon-Google battle as YouTube pulled from Fire TV

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Saturday, 09 Dec 2017
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The conflict over business interests between Google and Amazon is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the consumer, with Google now withdrawing its YouTube app from Amazon's Fire TV.

In the latest tit for tat in the tech giant battle, Google is also pulling YouTube from the device Echo Show – Amazon's smart loudspeaker with display.

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