Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links::undefined

  • darkkite@lemmy.ml
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    kinda makes sense. it’s like if a youtube video or soundcloud track gets DCMA’d then they’re going to remove the link.

    if it was you actual browser bookmark i would understand the outrage.

    im still on FF tho

    • mind@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is from the “saved” bookmarks in the Google app.

      This is not referring to actually removing a video from YouTube. If it was, removing the link from the “saved links” would be unnecessary because the video wouldn’t be there anymore anyway.

      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        I skimmed through the article and didn’t see it mentioned, but in another post I read that this was only done for a shared collection, as in it was at least semi public if not public

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        1 year ago

        yeah but it’s nice to know what has actually been removed so you can get the song/video elsewhere

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      Isn’t removing the bookmarks from people’s browser what they’re mad about? Now that Google is selling content through YouTube TV, I’ll bet they crack down hard on piracy. The old reddit /r/NFLstreams moved to a site a lot of people know. Now that Google owns Sunday ticket, I will not be surprised if it gets DDoS’d to shit this year and becomes borderline unusable. We’ll find out next week I guess.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
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        It’s not from the browser. As stated in the article:

        Initially, it was suggested that this removal impacted Google’s synched Chrome bookmarks but further research reveals that’s not the case. Instead, the removals apply to Google’s saved feature.

        It’s a feature specific to the google app that lets you share collections of bookmarks:

        https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/13128452?hl=en

        They don’t want people sharing links to pirate sites.

        It’s still bad, but saying they are going through bookmarks in chrome and deleting them is misinformation.

    • baked_tea@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Just yesterday I saw a post that they did in fact remove bookmark and notified user about it with detail

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        A users bookmarks on the browser, and a collection saved on google, are different things. One is private, the other can be shared.