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
I’ve been using duckduckgo as a back up search whenever I do some piracy, or when searching for news and politics. Google is censoring a lot of things.
I’ve used duckduckgo instead of Google for years. I prefer the search results on ddg. Google got doodoo a while ago.
In my opinion Duckduckgo’s results became a lot better as well.
A few years back I’ve ditched them since I had trouble finding almost any information I needed for work.
Now I’m using it exclusively on my private devices, both phone and PC, and I’m quite happy with it.
the more people use it the better it gets, but let’s not forget is that it is just front end for bing. i don’t think it the solution to privacy/security crowd but it has done a good job over all.