Youtube on the Amazon Firesticks.

[Jayson1]

If you have a Amazon Firestick I am sure you know about how they are taking off Youtube. It's some dispute with Google about not selling Google stuff on Amazon or something like that. A bunch of rich assholes having a hissy fit is how it sounds to me.

Anyways I couldn't get on Youtube today but when I tried it gave me the option of downloading something called Silk or Firefox. Does anyone know what those things are and if you download them do you have to pay extra? I did push the Silk option to see if it was going to charge you for using it but it was unclear and I was relucant to agree to the terms and service option until I know what I am getting into. I don't want to order or download it and find out I got to send them a extra 50 dollars a month I didn't know I would have to. I hate it when companies say things like "Access for free" only to find out you have to pay in the end. If they want to charge for something you should be upfront about it and not try and trick people.

Jason

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Silk is Amazon's native browser for the Kindle Fire and the Fire Phone. It's free.

Amazon and Google will probably resolve their differences regarding YouTube soon enough, but since the other options out there are so cheap, I just went ahead and got a Roku instead. It's much better anyway.

 

[Jayson1]

Silk is Amazon's native browser for the Kindle Fire and the Fire Phone. It's free.

Amazon and Google will probably resolve their differences regarding YouTube soon enough, but since the other options out there are so cheap, I just went ahead and got a Roku instead. It's much better anyway.

It worked. I got Youtube back. Thanks for the advice.

Jason

 

[Amaris]

I prefer Roku, myself, and have been buying the boxes and sticks since 2009. I like them because Roku is beholden to no specific platform.