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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion

Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com

Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.

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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

Read: 21/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions. These cookies.sqlite databases normally reside in the Firefox profiles folder.

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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.

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[Link] Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On The Wrist

Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com

Tired of that unsettling feeling you get from looking for paywalled papers on that one site that shall not be named? Yeah, us too. But now there’s an alternative that should feel a little less illegal: this new index of the world’s research papers over on the Internet Archive.

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[Link] Separating Ideas From Words

Read: 6/11/2021 hackaday.com

We covered Malamud’s General Index this week, and Mike and I were talking about it on the podcast as well. It’s the boldest attempt we’ve seen so far to open up scientific knowledge for everyone, and not just the wealthiest companies and institutions.

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[Link] Anti-Piracy Outfits Still Target Pirate Sites That Shut Down Years Ago

Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

Pirate sites such as ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, and isoHunt disappeared from the web more than half a decade ago. Intriguingly, that hasn't stopped some anti-piracy groups from going after them, as they're still asking Google to remove 'infringing' URLs of these sites.

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[Link] Hollywood and Netflix Signal “Piracy as a Service” (PaaS) as New Threat Vector

Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has submitted its latest overview of 'notorious' foreign piracy markets to the US Trade Representative. Aside from The Pirate Bay's and Fmovies of this world, Telegram, Baidu, and various domain registries are called out.

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[Link] Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android

Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the latest government regulatory body to take issue with how Google does business.

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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request

Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com

Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.

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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.

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[Link] U.S. Copyright Holders Want Tougher Anti-Piracy Measures in China

Read: 20/9/2021 torrentfreak.com

The IIPA, which represents the MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, would like China to take a stand against online piracy. This includes targeting pirate sites and apps.

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[Link] DMCA Takedown Errors Can Make it Harder to Find Movies Legally

Read: 19/9/2021 torrentfreak.com

Copyright holders have sent billions of takedown requests to Google. Their goal is to make it harder for people to find pirated content through the search engine. However, in some cases, takedown requests make it harder to find legal content too.

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[Link] Massive Adult Site ‘Rule34’ Prepares Legal Action to Fight Bogus Homepage Delisting

Read: 11/9/2021 torrentfreak.com

Huge adult site 'Rule34' is preparing legal action to have its homepage restored to Google's indexes. The site's operator says that he believes he's been targeted with one or more bogus takedown demands.

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[Link] Chrome will now let you keep searching without hitting the back button

Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com

Google has announced three new experiments to play with in Chrome beta, with the first allowing users to keep searching without needing to hit the back button.

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[Link] Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome

Read: 29/8/2021 www.forbes.com

A shocking new tracking admission from Google, one that hasn’t yet made headlines, should be a serious warning to Chrome’s 2.6 billion users. If you’re one of them, this nasty new surprise should be a genuine reason to quit.

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[Link] Fake ‘U.S. Copyright Office’ Sends Takedown Notices to Google

Read: 24/8/2021 torrentfreak.com

Google has received several takedown notices that claim to come from the 'U.S. Copyright Office', requesting the search engine to remove 'problematic' URLs.

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[Link] With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware

Read: 3/8/2021 arstechnica.com

Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.

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[Link] Toomics Reports Its Own Website for Copyright Infringements

Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com

Popular webtoon subscription service Toomics is quite active on the anti-piracy front. Unfortunately, the Korean company is not very accurate as its takedown notices target perfectly legal content on Facebook, Amazon, Pinterest and Netflix.

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[Link] Copyright Holders: Automatically Deleting Pirated Content From Search Isn’t Enough