- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.ml
- google@lemdro.id
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemmy.ml
- google@lemdro.id
One less reason to use Google for search.
Ya. Duckduckgo is ok and Brave search is great
DDG let’s Microsoft through the cracks.
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.
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!
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
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.
Yeah same, it’s so hard to open or download a pic now, I actually opened bing earlier out of frustration D’:
Snipping tool FTW.
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…
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.
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.
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. 😉
I wonder what changed.
There is a link at the top of this page that will give you the answer.
How’s newpipe compared to sometime like revanced? Anyone given both a go?
With the newpipe sponsorblock fork, it’s perfect. Simple and very functional. Supports more than just youtube too.
I like NewPipe, but honestly I prefer LibreTube + [Piped](https://piped video/).
NewPipe is better for playing a playlist in the background, ReVanced is better for active watching and browsing
Depends on if you’re looking for something like the official app or not.
I prefer revanced but newpipe is my backup
Feckin’ gobshite!
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.