Hi, I'm not the OP or connected but do work at Mojeek. We respect your privacy like DuckDuckGo but have our own search index and crawl the web like Google.
Firstly, congratulations! You sound very level-headed about it all which is refreshing. If you're UK-based I'd withdraw it all and hide it in a safe... FCS only protects up to about £70k (from memory) and who knows what state the banks will be in post brexit!?
I'm quite pleased to hear that they're being removed as they do my head in. If I owned videos that relied on the annotations and I wasn't in a position to re-record them then I'd probably screen record the videos with the annotations switched on and re-upload them.
Am I the only one that isn't even 1% surprised by this? Nearly every person I know that is over 40 years of age does next to no exercise, and eats and drinks too much.
I don't get the same behaviour as what is shown in the screenshots of the google blog. If I go to Google, disable JS and click on 'sign in' I go to an 'account chooser' page. From there, no matter what I do I end up being redirected to that same page. Not great UX from Google if others experience the same as me.
I use Firefox in excess of 10 hours every day and don’t have any problems so I find this statement very surprising. I’m not sure about Chrome being the de facto standard either and even if it is, it doesn’t mean you have to follow it.
I don’t understand why people are complaining about this. If you’re concerned about privacy then why would you even use a Google product in the first place? There are other options.
Thanks for the info. Marc (who created Mojeek) mentions Blekko a lot as he considers yourselves to be the last ones so far to have a proper go at creating a search engine from scratch. Also, we're now up to 2.2 billion pages and it's only a lack of servers that stops us from increasing at a much faster pace.
This is incorrect, not everything on the internet that calls itself a search engine get their results from one of those four. There's also Exalead, Gigablast, Mojeek and Findx for example.
Disclaimer: I work for Mojeek so know that it only gets results from it's own index.
I think you're sort of comparing chalk with cheese there. I see what you're saying to a point but we're talking about a bit of text on a web page that's in the public domain, not money or copyrighted media. Last time I checked, it's legal to make a copy for personal use anyway isn't it? If I bought a DVD and wanted to convert it for playback on my iPad I'm pretty sure I wouldn't go to jail for it.
Haha fair point... recording a Netflix stream from the EME applet is quite a bit different to simply clicking on a link to visit a url though isn't it, in the same way that breaking into a bank vault is a bit different to finding a £1 coin on on the floor.
I've paid for my internet connection and content that they willingly put on their server without any security protection has been downloaded to my computer. Now that I have that content I'll read it if I want to.