TechHive: Ugh: Windows Phone YouTube app goes back to the browser

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thumbnail Ugh: Windows Phone YouTube app goes back to the browser
Oct 7th 2013, 23:18, by Mark Hachman

If you can avoid it, just ignore the new 3.2 upgrade to the YouTube app for Windows Phone.

That's because the new update returns to the bad old days of browser-based upgrades. When using the new app, the new version of the app simply plays YouTube videos using the mobile version of the YouTube website—when it works at all. So far, the reviews of the new version of the YouTube app are full of reports about the app simply not working.

"Well this a big letdown," Manish wrote. "The new UI looks good but app doesn't work ever. Maybe Microsoft ****** Google off, and they have blocked it. Dear Microsoft, sort things out. We don't want have an app on our phone that doesn't work."

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The "new" YouTube on Windows Phone.

The Internet thought that the ongoing spat between Microsoft and Google ended in August, when the "official" YouTube app returned to the Windows Phone Store.

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