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An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by ineptech »

kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

Once upon a time, neat/surprising/weird/amazing sites were part of the currency of the internet. "Check out this link" was a welcome message. Sites full of links to neat stuff were really popular. You tried to fill your chat app with friends who consistently linked you to neat stuff.

Now, no more. "Check out this link" is not an enticing offer, it's assigning homework. I don't know if it's because neat stuff is no longer rare and we've collectively had our fill, or because everything got so co-opted and corrupted that we go in to every new site with one wary eye watching for the dark patterns. But one way or the other, people don't share links. They share memes instead, which ask far less of us, and are much harder to monetize.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by jesseryoung »

When Reddit's videos started taking off (more posts using it instead of Gfycat) I got frustrated that I couldn't post the gifs/videos to Discord without requiring a click through to Reddit. I created this simple Docker container that uses Youtube-DL to download an mp4 of the video and upload it to a public Azure blob storage account I created: https://github.com/jesseryoung/vreddit-converter

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by treesknees »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #272
Crash0v3rid3 wrote: post #49

Reddit hosted videos have been such a joke lately. They are just ripped from YouTube and TikTok, almost always with out the creators permission.

Even worse, many Reddit videos are screen recordings of platforms that disallow saving videos, like Tik Tok, Instagram or Facebook. This whole issue is Kafkaesque.

Not exactly. There are plenty of apps, websites and browser plugins that can rip these videos without recording the user's screen.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by ajtaylor »

hbn wrote: post #181
willis936 wrote: post #105

Friendly reminder that old.reddit.com is still up. I deleted the app this morning. Maybe old.reddit.com will be a nicotine patch.

There are decent (free and paid) third-party clients that make Reddit a much nicer experience on mobile. On Android I was a big fan of Sync for Reddit, and on iOS I've been using Apollo. Every once in a while I'll open up the official client and I'm just blown away at how bad it is. It's constantly trying to get me to watch livestreams of people doing random things unrelated to my interests. Why would I ever want to…

I've been a happy Relay user for years (Android).

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by sillysaurusx »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #283

Update: Reddit employees are denying that Reddit sent any such notice. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ojccls/reddit_o...

I suspected it was too evil for Reddit. Killing off secret santa was lame, but threatening to sue your users is a different level. Plus, there would be no reason to threaten a lawsuit when they could just ban the account.

So, gaming this out, I don't think the person that ran SaveVideo was evil either. Assuming good faith, the most likely explanation that comes to mind is that someone fabricated a cease and desist notice.

Either that, or Reddit lost track of one of their lawyers on payroll, who got a bit too bored. (As strange as it sounds, this actually happens; I once received a C&D from Magic Leap merely for mirroring their Magic Leap developer manual to my personal site. No idea how they even found the link.)

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Post by kevincox »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #109
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

> I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular It’s because the most active parts of Reddit’s user base prefer it this way. Reddit has become about rapid-fire content consumption without leaving the site. Following a link and actually reading an article for 5-10 minutes isn’t as exciting as rapidly consuming a few videos, a few screenshots, and a few self posts along with the top comments for the most interesting on…

Is it not reddit's fault? Some sites such as imgur expand inline much like "native" videos. Is there any reason that twitter posts don't expand in the same way? Is it Reddit's fault, Twitters? I think it is pretty clear that it isn't the user's fault.

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Post by kevincox »

graton wrote: post #290
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its because browsers started hiding links, and apps started replacing websites. You have a generation of people that grew up without links, and many many more late adopters that didn't willingly use the internet until the 2010s. I had to help a friend send me a link to something a few days ago, he had no idea what I was talking about. He didn't know how to copy/paste on his iPhone, and didn't realize you coul…

> my phone doesn't have a QR reader. It is possible it does. The default photo app on Android is a QR code reader, at least on Google Pixel phones. I open the photo app and then point it at the QR code. After a moment or two text appears which allows me to open the QR code link. I only realized this in the last month or two...

Although the recognition is hit-and-miss. A dedicated QR reader will grab the QR nearly instantly as soon as it is visible to the camera.

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Post by flatiron »

jokoon wrote: post #276

Youtube-dl works well for reddit video, just use it by giving the reddit comment link as YDL argument. It's impossible to detect YDL because it identifies itself as a browser. Meanwhile, just try to advocate for GFYcat instead.

It’s certainly not “impossible”. They could put some side channel communication in their player that YouTube-dl doesn’t implement. I can think of a bunch of ways you could do it.
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