One less reason to use Google for search.
Ya. Duckduckgo is ok and Brave search is great
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 so you still get the good search results and dont feed google your data
Well I dislike Google more
DDG let’s Microsoft through the cracks.
*the DDG browser
Google is unusable now. Google images is the worst.
Not being able to open image in new tab and download them anymore has made it functionally useless for me.
Yeah same, it’s so hard to open or download a pic now, I actually opened bing earlier out of frustration D’:
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
Ok, but if I open the site and it’s one of those automatically generated shit and the image is nowhere to be found…
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.
Firefox is still out there, and great! You don’t have to be beholden to chrome’s bullshit.
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.
Omg, thank you so much for this - I had no idea!
Blame Getty Images for that one
All my homies hate Getty. I’m still so pissed they bought Unsplash.
Snipping tool FTW.
Snipping tool for a high res jpg, a svg or a png? good luck with that.
Aah ok. Different target audience :)
On the plus side, now you have a reason to get an 8k monitor!
Yeah but you lose a ton of image resolution. The google preview isn’t even close to full size in most cases.
Yeah I’m only thinking of on screen stuff, not print etc.
The enshittification is complete.
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.
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.
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…
Home of Christine and the Queens, Manu Chao, Justice, Metronomy, Parcels, Ed Banger Records…
I’ve never heard of any of those artists…
neither have I, but it’s who is listed on their website and perhaps who they’re worried about people downloading via newpipe?
If download is what they’re worried about, they should also have a look at
yt-dlpthen. Something that Google themselves have tried blocking before, but gave in because a lot of folks had pretty genuine use cases foryt-dlp
Christine and the Queens is amazing tho.
Is it finally time to switch to DuckDuckGo?
Newpipe is still on Google for me, but I recommend DDG anyway because of its bangs support.
IKR! The bangs feature is so frickin awesome! Idk if Brave Search has that, because I’m interested in using Brave, but I’m addicted to banging my way across the internet.
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
Because it’s a YouTube clone android app that removes most ads. So sounds like googly is just using the take down request as an excuse to get try and get ride of the app.
Google can 100% just send a request by themselves, they don’t need to rely on third party copyright trolls
True but this way Google still look like the good guy while throwing the french company that posted the DMCA under the bus as the reason for the delisting. Just my observation but could be completely wrong.
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.comI’m a YouTube Premium subscriber that uses NewPipe. If they kill it I’ll be unsubbing.
What’s the benefit of Premium if you’re gonna use NewPipe?
Every now and then I’ll cast to a TV or something and it avoids ads then.
why subscribe
Because it’s so cheap it’s essentially free. Family of 6 for less than £2 a month.
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.
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.
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
Seriously people stop using google. I want to live in a world where you have to use searx to find google.
I switched to duckduckgo a while back when I got tired of Google being a shitty search engine.
Ddg claims to be private but nobody knows. I would rather use a search engine based in EU than a search engine based in USA. USA and China are big redflags
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.
Feckin’ gobshite!
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.
I thought Newpipe stopped working a long time ago. I could never get it to work. Time to give it another try. If it wasn’t for Google blocking the site, I would have forgotten about Newpipe :-D
Works fine, but I often have to go to the website to get the latest update. F-Droid takes a while to catch up.
That could have been the prob before. Well I’m back on with all my subscriptions. YouTube is bearable!
Don’t forget that NewPipe × SponsorBlock is a fork that adds SponsorBlock. Also there’s ReVanced to make YouTube bearable while still having access to your curated feed.
If you can find a copy, the original Vanced app still works great too. I never switched from it when the project died.
ReVanced is so much better. It can even block Reddit ads.
Vanced blocks YT ads and has sponsor block.
I no longer use Reddit, but Boost swaps reddits ads for banner ads that Pihole blocks. (boost also still works perfectly as long as your account has been a mod at some point, even just a creating a quick test sub and leaving it.)
With a self-hosted vpn keeping my phone behind Pihole, The only place I ever see ads is the Twitch app, but I really don’t watch that much so 🤷. I spend far more time on yt.
Been waiting till I need a new phone to explore ReVanced (as I don’t have an apk for Vanced, just the currently installed version). Just haven’t had any need for it yet.
Should be near instant if you add newpipe’s F-Droid repo instead of waiting for it to hit F-Droid’s main repo. Been a bit since the last release though.
Hey thanks for that! I’ve added the url and when I search for newpipe I get newpipe and legacy, but how do I know which repo fdroid is pulling these from? I don’t see anything in the interface that tells me it’s the right one. It says last updated 3 months ago for newpipe, does that sound right?
Yeah. It’s been a bit since the last update, but when they start doing rapid updates to fix something you’ll know you got the right one.
