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’:
Firefox is still out there, and great! You don’t have to be beholden to chrome’s bullshit.
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.
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.
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
DDG let’s Microsoft through the cracks.
*the DDG browser
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Took longer than I thought.
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
Yeah, Google has been weirdly tolerant of NewPipe and other YT-scraping apps for a while. I wonder what changed.
Interest rates? Reddit/Twitter/YouTube can’t just exist perpetually being unprofitable now, they have to actually have a pathway to revenue, since Venture Capitalists won’t just throw money at a hundred different projects, hoping one is successful…
It’s funny how every company’s goto to make more money is becoming an asshole.
Should we fix our algorithm, filter out the Nazis, stop malicious ads, and make premium a reasonable price? 🤔 No, let’s go crack down on newpipe and adblockers instead!
I wonder what changed.
CEO. 😉
Removed by mod
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
How’s newpipe compared to sometime like revanced? Anyone given both a go?
NewPipe is better for playing a playlist in the background, ReVanced is better for active watching and browsing
With the newpipe sponsorblock fork, it’s perfect. Simple and very functional. Supports more than just youtube too.
I prefer revanced but newpipe is my backup
I like NewPipe, but honestly I prefer LibreTube + [Piped](https://piped video/).
Depends on if you’re looking for something like the official app or not.
NewPipe doesn’t support google login like revanced, so you have to import into the app your subscriptions. It has fewer features than revanced too, but I think the app is more optimized and has a cleaner UI. I still prefer revanced, but it’s definitely worth it to try it out.
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.
