Did they not turn this into Google TV already? Not to be confused with Google TV, YouTube TV, Android TV or the old Google TV
No this was all merged into YouTube many years ago after it was announced long before that they were ending it. This is Lemmy so everyone is just gonna pretend Google just announced this and make a big deal out of it because “Google bad”
Exactly. This app has been dead for years. You could technically still rent or “buy” stuff from it for smart TVs and such, but it would also show up in your YouTube library.
This is just them actually announcing the app going away and making it official.
Meh, they don’t exactly crow about where to find it in their other apps. They mentioned the “shop” in Google TV and mentioned YouTube, but didn’t say where. Not like they made a store in YouTube to make it obvious. They can’t be assed to be clear about it because they have so many different apps that have the functionality.
Just looked and you can’t access your purchases on a brand account. That’s causing issues. They may have announced it a while ago, but they didn’t think it through at all. This is looking more and more like the YouTube Music fiasco.