52 points

One less reason to use Google for search.

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Ya. Duckduckgo is ok and Brave search is great

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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

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7 points

Well I dislike Google more

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48 points

Google is unusable now. Google images is the worst.

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

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9 points

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

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9 points

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

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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6 points

Blame Getty Images for that one

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

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Snipping tool FTW.

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Snipping tool for a high res jpg, a svg or a png? good luck with that.

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Yeah but you lose a ton of image resolution. The google preview isn’t even close to full size in most cases.

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The enshittification is complete.

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13 points

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.

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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.

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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…

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

I’ve never heard of any of those artists…

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

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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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Christine and the Queens is amazing tho.

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Is it finally time to switch to DuckDuckGo?

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Google can 100% just send a request by themselves, they don’t need to rely on third party copyright trolls

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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.

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