Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

nolemurs wrote: post #87

Rjevski wrote: post #19

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I wish that if they’re gonna downrank “good” pirate content then they should do the same (or worse) for the bad/malicious ones. Whether you’re pro or anti piracy, replacing that content with malware & scams does not make the world a better place.

> I wish that if they’re gonna downrank “good” pirate content then they should do the same (or worse) for the bad/malicious ones. I'm pretty confident they'd like to but it's a tricky problem. Based on this article, they're downranking based on number of legit DMCA requests - the good sites will generate a lot of signal on that front. The bad/malicious sites won't. The malicious/scam sites usually come and go quickly…

Post by EpicEng » Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

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I run all such queries in a dedicated Linux VM so that I visit any "strange" websites only in that VM. I use a browser not connected to my (sync) account and don't login to any of my usual websites. uBlock Origin with all kinds of lists enabled is on, uMatrix is installed but it was too much of a hassle so it remains disabled. I hope my feeling of relative safety is justified, but I'm not a security expert(?). PS: Be…

I wonder if I am doing too little in comparison? I just use incognito and adblock. My impression is that whenever there's a remote code execution bug in chrome it becomes big news (ex: Meltdown/Spectre) so usually I can just trust the browser sandbox. Surely anyone with an exploit that can break the sandbox would use it on high value target rather than wasting it on the mass and having it get patched quickly? I think…

Post by amdanil » Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

kragen wrote: post #5

I often find that Google sends me to scam sites like Elsevier instead of Library Genesis or TPB when what I am searching for can be found there. Is there a better search engine out there that solves this problem?

Post by EpicEng » Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

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How do you get around not being able to search email in protonmail? At least in the web client which is all I use in gmail.

You can actually search quite well in ProtonMail. Though it only searches some email headers (title, sender, receiver etc) and tags. Those are not stored encrypted. But it doesn't search the body of your emails.

Post by pdelbarba » Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

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Source? Wouldn't these people need to be specifically from the search team, and not Google in general (which would have almost no control over search)

Google keeps on demoting sites in search for doing certain things. In the past, this has largely been good. This stance against piracy and the stance that YouTube has taken against the principles of free speech mark a trajectory I find disturbing.