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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

kinda makes sense. it's like if a youtube video or soundcloud track gets DCMA'd then they're going to remove the link.

if it was you actual browser bookmark i would understand the outrage.

im still on FF tho

[–] Raiderkev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would have been nice to have amended the headline to reflect the actual story.

[–] baked_tea -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just yesterday I saw a post that they did in fact remove bookmark and notified user about it with detail

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

A users bookmarks on the browser, and a collection saved on google, are different things. One is private, the other can be shared.