Dear NewPipe community and other beloved creatures, You might have already noticed this: Searching “NewPipe” via Google will yield plenty information about the project, but a link to the official website is missing. This is because Google submitted to a DMCA takedown notice from a French record label, “Because Music”. The notice demands removing our homepage newpipe.net from their search listings along with a set of other domains completely unrelated to our project. The DMCA takedown notice was published in the Lumen database by Google themselves. While worse things could have happened as the result of such a takedown request, Google’s unlisting of our homepage creates a variety of problems. Given the fact that Google no longer counts visits to our site, it will lose relevance. As a result, websites for fake clones of NewPipe that mimic our homepage will tend to rank higher in the results. This could ultimately cause users to fall for such scams. The team is currently discussing what to do about the situation. We are considering taking legal action. If you are a lawyer and have experience with this and would like to help us, please contact us via email (team(at)newpipe.net). Regards, Schabi
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=newpipe -> top result is newpipe.net
The takedown request on google.com was submitted by Because Music : Home of Christine and the Queens, Manu Chao, Justice, Metronomy, Parcels, Ed Banger Records…
I’ve never heard of any of those artists…
neither have I, but it’s who is listed on their website and perhaps who they’re worried about people downloading via newpipe?
If download is what they’re worried about, they should also have a look at
yt-dlpthen. Something that Google themselves have tried blocking before, but gave in because a lot of folks had pretty genuine use cases foryt-dlpChristine and the Queens is amazing tho.
Is it finally time to switch to DuckDuckGo?
Newpipe is still on Google for me, but I recommend DDG anyway because of its bangs support.
IKR! The bangs feature is so frickin awesome! Idk if Brave Search has that, because I’m interested in using Brave, but I’m addicted to banging my way across the internet.