Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

Post by stOneskull » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:03 AM UTC

imiric wrote: post #80

yetanotherloss wrote: post #31

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I'm completely anti advert. They declared war on civilization 20 years ago and don't deserve to be treated as anything but a parasitic cultural disease. It didn't have to be this way, but that's where they took us.

20 years ago? Advertising has corrupted every public medium since the dawn of print media, arguably even before that. In the 19th century, it was quackery and false advertising in newspapers, making snake oil salesmen rich. In the first half of the 20th century, advertising started using propaganda tactics to psychologically manipulate consumers, as pioneered by Edward Bernays[1], making tobacco companies rich. Radio…

Post by Zuiii » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:10 AM UTC

d33 wrote: post #113

Zuiii wrote: post #96

I have a set of test questions I use to gauge how badly a LLM model has been lobotomized whenever a new one is released. This post made me finally realize that google search is really going away (compromise core mission due to invalid DMCA request? really??) and that I will have to start looking for new search engines. This of course means that I need a way to gauge prospective search engines. My first attempt: - Sea…

Is "zstd" a typo? Couldn't find any sources on it (unless we mean the compression standard), including Wikipedia.

Post by jraph » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

blackbear_ wrote: post #121

kerkeslager wrote: post #99

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Advertising is inherently immoral and it's our moral obligation to drive advertisers into bankruptcy. All advertisers are liars. Even when they're not directly saying untrue things, they're presenting a one-sided view of the truth, to the extent of being intentionally misleading. The harm done by these lies is incalculable. The distraction. The loss of self-esteem caused by ads always telling us we aren't enough, don…

> Advertising is inherently immoral Why? In principle, advertising is a way to propagate information in a market, trying to match offer with demand. Without any such mechanism, markets would be hugely inefficient (i.e., it would be annoying to find a shop selling what you are looking for, since you would need to visit many before finding one that sells that thing). The problem with ads, like you are saying, is that b…

Post by wintermutestwin » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

tohnjitor wrote: post #20

NewPipe is excellent. I was disappointed that it was not available for desktop until I discovered tartube which will download video files from almost any website easily

Post by t0bia_s » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 6:22 AM UTC

blackbear_ wrote: post #121

kerkeslager wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Advertising is inherently immoral and it's our moral obligation to drive advertisers into bankruptcy. All advertisers are liars. Even when they're not directly saying untrue things, they're presenting a one-sided view of the truth, to the extent of being intentionally misleading. The harm done by these lies is incalculable. The distraction. The loss of self-esteem caused by ads always telling us we aren't enough, don…

> Advertising is inherently immoral Why? In principle, advertising is a way to propagate information in a market, trying to match offer with demand. Without any such mechanism, markets would be hugely inefficient (i.e., it would be annoying to find a shop selling what you are looking for, since you would need to visit many before finding one that sells that thing). The problem with ads, like you are saying, is that b…