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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 wizzwizz4 »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #26
skytreader wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?) Man, classic HN short-sightedness. Not everyone is comfortable with these tools. Not everyone has a Python interpreter installed by default. Not everyone is in a device/platform that can even run Python. These bots are just damn more convenient. Assuming you are accessing old.reddit.com in mobile (the One True Way), to download a video you need to…

I have literally _a toolbar button_ in my Android web browser that downloads the video of any page that I'm viewing right now. How can there be anything more convenient than that? But your comparison is extremely flawed anyway. E.g. "Fumble on your mobile keyboard to type the address of your preferred save video service." Even if you claim not to know how to use bookmarks, you still have history. Basically, the "unco…

> And with SaveVideo you still spam and even reveal to everyone you are downloading the video in the process.

Unless the SaveVideo link is already there, in which case it's one click. Just because your workflow works for you, that doesn't mean others are morally compromised for doing things differently.

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

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Post by herbst »

esperent wrote: post #39
herbst wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some youtuber explained the breakdown of Reddit in parts with yahoo banning nsfw from Tumblr and their community suddenly looking for new safe places (hence the big banning on Reddit began at the same time)

I really don't think it's the communities on Reddit that are the problem. I mean, yes, some communities there are problematic, but way more are great. The problem is the site owners. They are growing increasingly user hostile.

IMO Reddit got a lot more hostile in the small communities I were part of when the PC stuff started and many negative subs got banned without warning. Could be selection bias.

But agreed the websites updates are horrible in every single way. I can't think of one new feature that did not make things worse, the only way I can use Reddit is adding the old. Subdomain manually every time

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

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Post by crossroadsguy »

reustle wrote: post #41

This reminds me to nuke my Reddit account of 14 years. This extension edits each comment/post to be blank, and then deletes them. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-histor...

Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post.

But that’s still way better than HN. At least on reddit you can easily delete posts and accounts.

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

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Post by thinkingemote »

reustle wrote: post #41

This reminds me to nuke my Reddit account of 14 years. This extension edits each comment/post to be blank, and then deletes them. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-histor...

theres a limit for time (6 months?) for these via the website, and via the API theres a limit of 2000 or so latest comments, with no way to get the list of latest comments re-populated from older ones when your comments do get deleted. (They basically have a cassandra db for all the latest stuff, and an read only db for the old stuff. So the live db never gets updated from the old db.)

What this means is that your a lot of old comments and submissions are unable to be deleted.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

nhinck wrote: post #4

It's quite funny for a content aggregation site to get all high and mighty about tools that make it easier to share and aggregate content.

It's been a while since Reddit was a content aggregation site. Right now, Reddit is an ad delivery and data collection platform built around a content aggregation core, the way a mouse trap is built around a cheese cube.

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

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Post by fffffg »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #5

I really don’t miss Reddit, I’ve deleted the accounts I had there and am much better off for it. I’m not sure when the real tipping point was but that platform has really lost its way.

Reddit is very enthusiastic about handing out site wide bans these days. If you say the wrong thing on the wrong topic you can be permanent banned, whereas before you would just be downvoted or argued with.

Same for subreddits being banned. But only when it comes to speech it seems, not picture or video. So, for example, we have the odd case of "truelesbians" subreddit being banned for being trans-exclusive, but "lesbians" subreddit which is also trans-exclusive, but dedicated to pornographic imagery, is allowed to stay.

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

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Post by autoexec »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #16
MikeUt wrote: post #8

They* want to be the only record keepers, and it scares me. Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines" (or all the videos of a banned account), it will be as if it never existed. *Nearly every major video host deliberately makes saving videos difficult.

>Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines" This is why I'm keeping an offline digital music collection for the first time in over a decade, it's because I'm sick of this kind of behaviour from record labels. Their attitudes of deleting things on a whim as though they never existed pissed me off to the point I don't see streaming services as a viable means of keeping my music any more.

The MPA/RIAA are one of the greatest threats to the internet in general right now. They are constantly pushing for more and more power, making greater and greater demands of ISPs and hosting companies.

Even now that a global pandemic has demonstrated how essential internet access has become to our lives courts seem quite happy to insist that ISPs permanently ban people based on nothing more than unsubstantiated claims of copyright infringement.

They've turned the DMCA into an alternative revenue stream where they can shake down people (both the innocent and the naive) who are forced to hand over settlement money for protection because they most often couldn't afford an attorney for advice let alone afford one for a long battle against media giants in courts that have increasingly become pay to win.

It's frightening how much they've managed to get away with already. I used to worry about how much of our culture they were taking from us, now I worry about them taking things much more fundamental.

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