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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

One less reason to use Google for search.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ya. Duckduckgo is ok and Brave search is great

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t understand why people recommend duckduckgo. Its not open source, still includes ads (sure they’re no as invasive), they’re a for profit company who will do who knows what with our data when the investors want to increase their profits, and the search results aren’t very good causing people to use the !g google shortcut anyways.

If anything people should recommend a searx instance that uses google and other engines so you still get the good search results and dont feed google your data

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well I dislike Google more

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Google is unusable now. Google images is the worst.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Not being able to open image in new tab and download them anymore has made it functionally useless for me.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Firefox is still out there, and great! You don't have to be beholden to chrome's bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is an extension for that, available on Firefox and Chrome. I couldn't use image search without it, to be honest.

You suck, Getty Images.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Omg, thank you so much for this - I had no idea!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah same, it's so hard to open or download a pic now, I actually opened bing earlier out of frustration D':

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's due to a lawsuit for copyrights... Google settled and made so users couldn't download the image from the Google app, they need to visit the site

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ok, but if I open the site and it's one of those automatically generated shit and the image is nowhere to be found...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And then the site doesn't even have that image and a lot of websites are starting to do it on purpose. Therefore, the search has failed.

It's over, google images is a bad product.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Blame Getty Images for that one

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All my homies hate Getty. I'm still so pissed they bought Unsplash.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The enshittification is complete.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Been looking for this word, it's so perfectly succinct and evocative of the Web 3.0 sludgeworld.

Search engines are almost entirely useless now. As much as I'd love an indie alternative, sending out millions of webcrawlers seems prohibitively expensive.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I love how Google's original intent of simply cataloging the net has now turned them into a net nanny whose job it is to prohibit vile copyright scofflaws from infesting others with their demented thinking.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=newpipe -> top result is newpipe.net

The takedown request on google.com was submitted by Because Music : Home of Christine and the Queens, Manu Chao, Justice, Metronomy, Parcels, Ed Banger Records…

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Home of Christine and the Queens, Manu Chao, Justice, Metronomy, Parcels, Ed Banger Records…

I've never heard of any of those artists...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

neither have I, but it's who is listed on their website and perhaps who they're worried about people downloading via newpipe?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If download is what they're worried about, they should also have a look at yt-dlp then. Something that Google themselves have tried blocking before, but gave in because a lot of folks had pretty genuine use cases for yt-dlp

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is it finally time to switch to DuckDuckGo?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Newpipe is still on Google for me, but I recommend DDG anyway because of its bangs support.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

This french copyright troll doesn't hold any rights on YouTube (the website) so the DMCA removal request is invalid

No content hosted on newpipe.net is owned by that copyright troll, nor there are instructions or links to pirate that exact content so I don't understand how it it can be considered valid. I should be rejected, together with all the subsequent requests

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, this is such shit. The request itself is so overly broad, it's a shame that google chose (or was forced) to honor it. I see the following listed in the request:

10. addons.mozilla.org
15. www.microsoft.com
16. play.google.com
40. en.wikipedia.org
45. chrome.google.com
58. www.trustpilot
64. soundcloud.com
65. www.facebook.com

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'm a YouTube Premium subscriber that uses NewPipe. If they kill it I'll be unsubbing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What's the benefit of Premium if you're gonna use NewPipe?

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Top result on Google is newpipe.net for me. Perhaps NewPipe has already submitted a counter notice and it has been restored? That's how the DMCA is supposed to work.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Kind of surprised that Google didn't already remove it considering it is an application that circumvents it's own products But you know, it was bound to happen eventually

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely think this has been corrected because a search for "NewPipe" in an incognito window yields NewPipe.net as the first result with the Github, reddit, and F-Droid pages following.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I saw a Louis Rossmann video on this. Honestly, corporations don't even have to hide their intentions anymore. It's really sad that they can do shit plain in sight for everyone to see, but blind only to the legal system.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Took longer than I thought.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If the DMCA was sent by YouTube, ok. But in this case it has been sent by a french copyright troll that has nothing to do with YouTube

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Seriously people stop using google. I want to live in a world where you have to use searx to find google.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I switched to duckduckgo a while back when I got tired of Google being a shitty search engine.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Google search is dead for me, i have been using duck duck go for about 5 years now. If I'm searching for newpipe, I expect to get newpipe as a result. If I dont its utter wank at indenxing the internet.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How's newpipe compared to sometime like revanced? Anyone given both a go?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With the newpipe sponsorblock fork, it's perfect. Simple and very functional. Supports more than just youtube too.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like NewPipe, but honestly I prefer LibreTube + [Piped](https://piped video/).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on if you're looking for something like the official app or not.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

NewPipe is better for playing a playlist in the background, ReVanced is better for active watching and browsing

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer revanced but newpipe is my backup

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Feckin' gobshite!

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