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It's just open season on Meta and big tech in general. Giphy isn't exactly an ad powerhouse nor a real competitor to Meta, but any acquisitions are now opportun
by boh 5y ago
It's just open season on Meta and big tech in general. Giphy isn't exactly an ad powerhouse nor a real competitor to Meta, but any acquisitions are now opportunities for political theater.
- thesuitonym 5y agoTrue, but perhaps big tech shouldn't be so big. If Facebook's mergers had been under this much scrutiny in the past, the web would probably be a better place today. It's too little too late, but it's not exactly a witch hunt.
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoGiphy is and was always just a metadata aggregator with the side effect of hosting funny little copyright infringing videos.
- dylan604 5y agoThey are not infringing copyright. They definitely qualify for use under several parts of the copyright law.
- llacb47 5y agoYou mean fair use, and not necessarily. Also "fair use" is not a law in the U.K.
- dylan604 5y agoWorks used for satirical work are allowed. Seems like what these are being used for.
- detaro 5y agoParody is fair use. Satire usually isn't. And I'd doubt most use of e.g. posting gifs on social media in response to something counts as "satire".
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoAnd as the ancestor comment pointed out, there's no such thing as "fair use" in the UK. There is a very distinct concept of "fair dealing".
- detaro 5y agoTrue, on quick search the UK indeed doesn't make that distinction as obviously, thanks for the correction. So only the second part of my comment applies.
- Teandw 5y agoYou don't understand how valuable data is to companies like Meta etc. Things like Giphy are amazing data builders. Think of all the cookies that get placed around the web for FB to use, when a giphy is embeded on a website. Even the types of Giphy's people use, are useful data points.
- judge2020 5y agocurl -v https://media.giphy.com/media/bKgCINrtZWQ39wZCxU/giphy-downsized-large.gif 2>&1 | grep set-cookie | wc -l 0
- throwthere 5y agos/cookie/ip data and referrer tracking/.
- hansel_der 5y agosure, but this does not prove anything. besides who would want to give a cookie to curl UA?
- mdoms 5y agoNow try loading it in a browser like everyone else. You will find cookies for giphy.com and cookies.giphy.com. Please stop spreading misinformation.
- manojlds 5y agoUser agents aren't a thing?
- tyingq 5y agocurl -s https://cookies.giphy.com/global-cookies.f54c0b98fd75c8afe8abb8e12bf0d8a9297f480a.html |less
- pawelk 5y agoI opened this URL in my browser, and I was offered a `didomi_token` cookie that assigned me a user_id of 17d72dbe-d667-610e-ba58-323f0a33f7b1. When viewed in a browser as opposed to cURL it's actually a HTML page containing, among other things, the actual gif image hosted at https://i.giphy.com/media/bKgCINrtZWQ39wZCxU/giphy-downsized-large.gif https://i.giphy.com/media/bKgCINrtZWQ39wZCxU/giphy-downsized... (this one comes without cookies).
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> open season on Meta and big tech in general On Facebook, not big tech in general. Tech is still immensely powerful, popular and politically supported. Facebook is not.