Google claims that it still violates its Terms of Service

Aug 16, 2013 06:20 GMT  ·  By

Windows Phone users out there are seeing themselves left once again outside of a fully-fledged YouTube experience, as Google has decided to block the recently updated official YouTube app for Microsoft’s mobile OS once more.

Apparently, the Mountain View-based Internet giant is considering the new flavor of the app as violating YouTube’s Terms of Service, and has decided to lock it out of it, a recent article on The Verge explains.

The new iteration of the mobile client was made available for download only a few days ago with a brand new interface, various performance enhancements, and new features, including the option to upload videos to YouTube.

The initial flavor of Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone was impacted by similar issues a while ago, as Google decided to block its access to the popular service.

However, Google said at the time that it was working with Microsoft for the release of a new flavor of the application, one that would comply with YouTube’s API terms of service, and which would have ads enabled in it.

However, it appears that the updated mobile client is still not developed the way Google wanted it to be, and that the issue is not resolved.

Apparently, Microsoft has reverse-engineered YouTube's ad code in the new application, and all that Google did was to block the API key it was using. The Redmond-based software company was supposed to use publicly available YouTube APIs for the building of the software.

"Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service," a Google spokesperson said, according to The Verge.

"It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines."

Microsoft says they are once again in talks with Google to defuse the entire situation, though it remains to be seen how long it will take for that to happen. In the meantime, Windows Phone users are left out of YouTube via the dedicated application once again.