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posted by Cactus on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.

Fluffeh writes:

According to TorrentFreak, Google is downranking The Pirate Bay's website in its search results for a wide variety of queries, some of which are not linked to copyright-infringing content. Interestingly, the change mostly seems to affect TPB results via the Google.com domain, not other variants such as Google.ca and Google.co.uk.

It also seems that Google may only be downranking searches that are explicitly looking for copyright-infringing content, not searches that are simply looking for The Pirate Bay itself. It will be interesting to see whether this is a backhanded effort to appease the media companies, or a taste of things to come to all the Google domains.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by SMI on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:37PM

    by SMI (333) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:37PM (#7549)

    I see your NoScript, BetterPrivacy, httpsEverywhere, and AdBlock, and raise you RequestPolicy, ModifyHeaders, Disconnect.me, and SecretAgent.

    Not as much of a fan as Ghostery, though. Also, wise move with the VM.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by darnkitten on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:11PM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:11PM (#7565)

    Hey...slightly offtopic, but--I used to use HttpsEverywhere on shared computers (I run a small library), but had to disable, as I was getting certificate error messages from popular email and social networking sites (ie., Google and facebook). These would require me to reset the cert8 file to resolve. Do you know if that is still happening?

    HttpsEverywhere seems such an obvious fit for public computers, but having to fix them 2-3 times a week got real old real fast.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by SMI on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:34PM

      by SMI (333) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:34PM (#7574)

      I can't speak re: popular email and social networking sites (ie., Google and Facepalm), as I avoid them like the plague, but I can tell you that I've never had any problems with HttpsEverywhere. If your issues were more than a few months ago, maybe try again? I doubt that such an issue would be allowed to simmer very long...

      Furthermore, you might look into changing rulesets [eff.org].

      • (Score: 1) by darnkitten on Friday February 28 2014, @03:06AM

        by darnkitten (1912) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:06AM (#8232)

        Thanks. It has been a while. I'll have to test it on one or two of the machines and see what happens.

        I can't speak re: popular email and social networking sites (ie., Google and Facepalm), as I avoid them like the plague...

        Me too, but most of the patrons who come in to use the public computers are just there to use FB or other social sites. I never see the problems until the patrons trigger them.

        • (Score: 2) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @03:13AM

          by SMI (333) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:13AM (#8237)

          "I never see the problems until the patrons trigger them."

          I understand completely.