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It' true. Recently google did it again,after a long battle between Google and one of the developer of the add-on(Streamus).
Streamus, the Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a serious music service, has been neutered by Google.
The tiny extension made YouTube into a viable music service by offering a button in your browser for quickly building a queue of songs and playing them in the background.
Sean Anderson, a 25 year old developer based in California bet everything on his tiny, but incredibly useful Chrome extension. At first, the extension was picked up by a few friends but it quickly gained steam in January of 2014.
It was always somewhat questionable, because it played music in the background without the video that went with it — Anderson seemingly knew this, but had hoped he would one day be able to work something out with YouTube if it got big enough.
It feels like something that Google itself should have built, but it’s actually built by someone who quit their job to work on the extension full-time.
Even months after YouTube launched its paid music streaming service it still doesn’t offer a decent desktop streaming app and Streamus offered an excellent alternative. It racked up over 300,000 installs in just over two years.
Now, three years after its inception, Streamus is dead. It’s been removed from the Chrome Web Store after Google revoked its API key.
YouTube was upset for three reasons: Streamus was not back-linking to YouTube or showing video in the foreground while playing music and didn’t show its advertisements. Understandable requests. After the initial cease and desist and an introduction to YouTube’s head of developer relations, the company went quiet.
It' true. Recently google did it again,after a long battle between Google and one of the developer of the add-on(Streamus).
Streamus, the Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a serious music service, has been neutered by Google.
The tiny extension made YouTube into a viable music service by offering a button in your browser for quickly building a queue of songs and playing them in the background.
Sean Anderson, a 25 year old developer based in California bet everything on his tiny, but incredibly useful Chrome extension. At first, the extension was picked up by a few friends but it quickly gained steam in January of 2014.
credit:google Stramus image
It was always somewhat questionable, because it played music in the background without the video that went with it — Anderson seemingly knew this, but had hoped he would one day be able to work something out with YouTube if it got big enough.
It feels like something that Google itself should have built, but it’s actually built by someone who quit their job to work on the extension full-time.
credit:google youtube image
Even months after YouTube launched its paid music streaming service it still doesn’t offer a decent desktop streaming app and Streamus offered an excellent alternative. It racked up over 300,000 installs in just over two years.
Now, three years after its inception, Streamus is dead. It’s been removed from the Chrome Web Store after Google revoked its API key.
YouTube was upset for three reasons: Streamus was not back-linking to YouTube or showing video in the foreground while playing music and didn’t show its advertisements. Understandable requests. After the initial cease and desist and an introduction to YouTube’s head of developer relations, the company went quiet.
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