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Yeah. Just great. Granted, I use my Popcorn Hour mostly for watching MKVs and playing music, but I have watched the occasional YouTube clip fairly often.

Obviously, the real problem is that the API-based access is ad-free. It is not really that surprising that Google would prevent the circumvention of its ads.

I wonder if alternate schemes such as PlayOn will continue to work? Using PlayOn, I can still watch Hulu on my PCH. They have a YouTube plugin, but I am guessing that they are relying upon the same API that the MSP folks used.



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