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
      • Daklon@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’ve been trying to use it since 2 months, it depends on what you are looking for, sometimes I like the results more than the google ones but the index is smaller than the google one. They know it and at the bottom the offer links to ecosia, startpage and others. If you don’t like the result you can clikc on those links and you will see the same search but from those search engines.

        • vd1n@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Nice. I usually usenducksuckgo or Google as my default. It literally depends on what I’m feeling during install, lol. But always looking for alternatives…

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wow, this is the first independent search engine that iv’e seen that isn’t a Bing frontend. Bookmarking it.