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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.com
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.
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.
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.
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 and other engines so you still get the good search results and dont feed google your data
Well I dislike Google more
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-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
Christine and the Queens is amazing tho.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a YouTube Premium subscriber that uses NewPipe. If they kill it I'll be unsubbing.
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.
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
Feckin' gobshite!