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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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Shouldn’t the creators of the original content have a say though? If someone made their youtube video private that probably means they don’t want people watching it anymore.

If that was a consideration, wouldn't they have hosted it themselves? Even super small businesses that rely on training videos as paid income don't host things on YouTube because they want more control over the content.

it's likely the video creator used youtube so they could create an audience much more easily. Or didn't have the technical know-how to host a video themselves. Or they didn't expect making their youtube video private in the future would be an issue, or any number of reasons.

It's much harder to imagine someone wanting to upload videos to youtube, and then considering the possibility that something might change in the future that makes them want to make their videos private, and then deciding they are going to host the video on their own instead. Unless it's a tech person or someone making extremely shady videos, this scenario is much more unlikely than the opposite

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

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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…

Have you recently tried to share a link with someone? There's so much tracking shit appended onto the end of the link that by the time they get it and whatever url parsing algorithm their device uses maims it, the url is no longer in tact and trying to click it brings you to a broken page. I make a concerted effort to remove all of that before sending, but Google et. al. are working very hard to make that harder and…

It wouldn't just benefit users if UTM params were automatically stripped off links when they were shared, it would also benefit the marketers/analysts, since they'd have less crappy data.

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

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TikTok's meteoric rise has been because it's so easy to share the content you like, including exporting content. You can easily download a video and re-host it on another platform. You can send a link to a friend and they don't need to install the app to view it. TikTok is proving that walled gardens are counterproductive and that if you want your app to go viral, it should be easy to export and share across any plat…

Are they though? Are they making enough money to be profitable? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, reddit. They all used to be just as easy to share outside the walled garden at one point. It's a constant push/pull of vitality vs profit it seems.

I thought it was decided by the tech-sphere that TikTok was basically a bulk information-gathering operation for the CCP.

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

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> A better example would be what happened with /r/ukpolitics and Aimee Challenor I think, Would you mind expanding on this? I don't follow Reddit dramas any more. > It will happen one way or another though, one day they'll make a decision too user-hostile and Reddit will have its very own "Digg V4" moment. I highly doubt that. Reddit has far too much non-techie people, which tend to know less alternatives and don't p…

>Would you mind expanding on this? I don't follow Reddit dramas any more. No worries! Aimee Challenor is a very minor political figure in the UK who's mostly known for the fact she hired her father to act as her election agent after he was charged with (and was later convicted of) truly horrendous crimes against a ten year old child. Later on she left politics entirely and began working for the Reddit Public Access N…

You seriously going to gloss over the fact that Aimee Challenor is transgender? Like that has no relevance to their "questionable conduct"? Is this just the massive chilling effect of cancel culture?

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

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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 no…

Wow they killed SecretSanta??! Never participated, but thats a bad business decision for sure... Unless they come out with their own concept of course...

As a former digg refugee, I'm sorry to see the same dysfunction strike reddit.

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

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Agreed! I downloaded the app, saw 10 minutes of teenage girls dancing, and deleted it. My friend talked me into giving it another chance. After a few hours, it was consistently delivering videos that were exactly my taste. I've never had such a good discovery experience.

How long does it take? I got sick of seeing two kinds of videos: 1. Teenagers dancing to a specific song, always one of a handful of songs. 2. Teenagers performing physical feats to a specific song, always one of a handful of songs.

3. Fooled my parents again HAHAHAAHAHA

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

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Yeah, if I'm looking for a time waster, I'll start on Reddit, just by habit. Then I'll go to TikTok when I see the first one on Reddit. It doesn't take very long anymore these days. I remember people on Reddit making fun of facebook saying everything on there was on Reddit 3 days ago. The tables have turned since then.

I mean, Twitter out-did Reddit on that by 2012. Everything on Facebook and Reddit is just screenshots of Tweets.

You're using reddit wrong if you only use "popular". There are thousands of subreddits and it's easy curate a subset of ones that fit you rather than whatever tiktok does (and then probably ships off to China for cataloging)

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

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When a company grows large enough, the APIs and user-generated tools that propelled its growth get treated like a threat. They tend to vertically integrate and keep anyone from using their data.

We'll see how much longer the API lasts. reddit knows that if they kill that, they may trigger a digg-style user migration. It's also why they keep the "old" version of the site around.

a lot of people (and I mean a LOT) hate the "new" reddit website and will look elsewhere if they limit the API (or do away with it entirely) for clients like slide, RIF, apollo, Sync, etc

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

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

old.reddit.com + reddit enhancement suite is a fair superior experience. If they kill that off they are toast and I think they know it. It will be a repeat of the Digg fiasco.

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

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Well here's some data to counter the anecdotes: - 80%+ of Americans agree that there needs to be Data Privacy legislation controlling big tech https://epic.org/privacy/survey/ - Americans are rather in favor of breaking up big tech and popular anti-trust action continues https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/1/dfp_vox_tec... - Apple has pivoted their iPhone advertising strategy to promote privacy against Big…

> This poll was conducted between April 16-April 19, 2021 among a sample of 1992 Registered Voters 80% on an online positive-assertive survey ran on population that small it's a completely bogus statistic. heck I can't even fathom how people would cite this, the methodological note is three lines, doesn't tell how the participants were selected, say votes were weighted but doesn't say the weights nor the weighted par…

I apologize that my well-sourced comment, the only comment in this thread with any sourcing at all, did not sufficiently meet your quality standards.

I note with amusement that you did not post this same comment in response to every other reply which included no sources at all.

I suppose one only thinks critically when they disagree.

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