How YouTube killed an extension with 300,000 users

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by Sindy Cator on July 21, 2015 at 3:10 pm

Streamus, the Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a serious music service, has been neutered by Google after a long battle between the company and the developer of the add-on. 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. I wrote earlier this year that Streamus “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…