Took longer than I thought.
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…
One less reason to use Google for search.
DDG let’s Microsoft through the cracks.
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
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
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 but you lose a ton of image resolution. The google preview isn’t even close to full size in most cases.
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.
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
I’m a YouTube Premium subscriber that uses NewPipe. If they kill it I’ll be unsubbing.
