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
#2Users saving videos is a commercial problem for the owners of those videos. And we can't be having users enjoy videos without ads now, can we?
The Reddit 'gods' may have decreed that this bot must die, but of course the real god of Reddit - and of all social media - is, of course, Mammon.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#3When 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.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#4It'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.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#5I 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.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#6These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread.
It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just privately message the bot in order to activate its action, and/or much more tech-friendly to have a browser extension to do the same action. I'm quite sure youtube-dl already works with more types of "Reddit videos" than "SaveVideo" ever will, and youtube-dl couldn't care less if Reddit approves of them or not.
But, of course, thanks to the apparent power of advertising, any such service that does NOT spam everyone like "SaveVideo" and the rest is condemned to obscurity.
Net result is tens of annoying SaveVideo (and their even more spammy competitors) messages in every popular reddit thread. How do you call it when someone posts several messages in every single popular thread with the name of their service?
I really don't know why the websites (Twitter, Reddit, etc.) put up with those. Yes, Twitter has Threadunrollers and the like which is basically the same thing. Personally I consider these "business models" to be one of these plagues on the WWW that must be eradicated with prejudice. The other one being websites that just grab files that are otherwise publicly available and put them behind a loginwall/paywall (e.g. Pinterest, Scribd, Manualslib, etc.), then SEO the hell out of it so that the original file becomes much harder to find.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#7These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread. It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just pr…
If you work for reddit you should disclose that.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#8They* 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.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#9These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread. It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just pr…
If you work for reddit you should disclose that.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl.
You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you.
If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you work for reddit you should disclose that.
tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Wait, youtube-dl works with Reddit/imgur/redgifs hosted videos? I thought it was for, y'know, YouTube.