Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links::undefined

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t removing the bookmarks from people’s browser what they’re mad about? Now that Google is selling content through YouTube TV, I’ll bet they crack down hard on piracy. The old reddit /r/NFLstreams moved to a site a lot of people know. Now that Google owns Sunday ticket, I will not be surprised if it gets DDoS’d to shit this year and becomes borderline unusable. We’ll find out next week I guess.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not from the browser. As stated in the article:

      Initially, it was suggested that this removal impacted Google’s synched Chrome bookmarks but further research reveals that’s not the case. Instead, the removals apply to Google’s saved feature.

      It’s a feature specific to the google app that lets you share collections of bookmarks:

      https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/13128452?hl=en

      They don’t want people sharing links to pirate sites.

      It’s still bad, but saying they are going through bookmarks in chrome and deleting them is misinformation.