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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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Post by ahakki »

LocalH wrote: post #303

Fuck Getty. They claim licensing rights over public domain images, and then tell the original copyright holder (who placed the image in the public domain) to fuck off. https://petapixel.com/2016/11/22/1-billion-getty-images-laws...

The work was in the public domain, which means anyone can do anything with it, including selling it. The original copyright holder has no more rights than anyone else once the work is in the public domain (thats kinda the point of it).

This lawsuit was really rather pointless.

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Post by cgmg »

Feniks wrote: post #294
josteink wrote: post #241

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But the question is what would they be winning? Fewer users because they are now off the search-grid. Why would they want that?

Believe it or not there are people who just enjoy suing corporations or governments. Lawyers are not cheap and frankly Google would lose every case because they are in the wrong.

Why are they in the wrong (on this issue)?

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Post by sah2ed »

JakeAl wrote: post #367
bitwize wrote: post #279

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Speaking of cable TV -- back in the 80s and 90s, Nickelodeon was groundbreaking . Today it's basically Disney Channel 2. Anything that rebelsagainst cable TV will end up looking like cable TV,just like the cable networks rebelled against the status quo before becoming the status quo. Maybe what we have is a sort of local maximum, a formula that best "works" for our local culture.

That's known as 'the structure of scientific revolutions' but it applies to revolution/innovation in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re... The book is free online.

I know this doesn't really add to the discussion but thanks for the reference.

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Post by acranox »

rasz wrote: post #186
acranox wrote: post #10

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Richer click and copy url doesn’t even work on google search results anymore. You just get the google analytics redirection crap. Bleargh.

find and install Google Tracking-B-Gone, it strips all that garbage

Neat! I wish I didn’t need browser addons for this, but maybe it’s worth checking out.

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Post by mdekkers »

TomMarius wrote: post #370
mygo wrote: post #339

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This is my gripe with Facebook and why I stopped using it. Biaaaaootch, I added people to my friends list because I want to see their posts. Ditch the dang algorithm and literally just show me everyone’s posts, in chronological order. That’s all you literally have to do. Don’t worry about me getting annoyed by spam, idiots who abuse their status updates will be blocked or defriended by me and everyone else who isnt h…

You can view "most recent" posts and that will do exactly what you're saying you want.

Except for the fact that Facebook keeps changing that back

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Post by GunlogAlm »

akvadrako wrote: post #252
gvx wrote: post #167

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Only images you click on (so that the larger preview pops up, with the Visit button and which used to have the View image button) load the original images, rescaled with CSS. The grid of smaller images consists of thumbnails.

I tested it and this doesn't seem to happen. Maybe it's only for small images or is on a best effort basis.

All images you click on are fully loaded, images you don't click on are Google-hosted thumbnails. No exceptions.

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Post by akvadrako »

GunlogAlm wrote: post #378
akvadrako wrote: post #252

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I tested it and this doesn't seem to happen. Maybe it's only for small images or is on a best effort basis.

All images you click on are fully loaded, images you don't click on are Google-hosted thumbnails. No exceptions.

This isn't true for me. The clicked on images, at least of high resolution, are data urls under 1 MP. Exactly like the thumbnails from the grid.

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Post by mygo »

TomMarius wrote: post #370
mygo wrote: post #339

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This is my gripe with Facebook and why I stopped using it. Biaaaaootch, I added people to my friends list because I want to see their posts. Ditch the dang algorithm and literally just show me everyone’s posts, in chronological order. That’s all you literally have to do. Don’t worry about me getting annoyed by spam, idiots who abuse their status updates will be blocked or defriended by me and everyone else who isnt h…

You can view "most recent" posts and that will do exactly what you're saying you want.

You must not use that feature very often or else you would know that Facebook does not respect that setting. When you set it, come back in a day or two and they’ve switched it back. Because once again, they know what’s best for you. You don’t know what you want, even if it’s not default and you go through the trouble of turning it on.

Tried it and got tired of randomly noticing that it’s not showing me “most recent” any more, and not knowing at what point in time they had switched it back on me, and what I might have missed that I would have wanted to see during that time. You have to religiously go through the process of seeing if it’s set to “most recent” every time you visit. FOH.

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