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For me, searching "Watch Oppenheimer Free" on Google returns mostly malware and fake media-purchase websites (that will probably try to steal my credit card), m
by whstl 3y ago
For me, searching "Watch Oppenheimer Free" on Google returns mostly malware and fake media-purchase websites (that will probably try to steal my credit card), mixed with SEO spam about "how and why it's not available on Netflix or Hulu... yet".
To me that's significantly worse than showing no results.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThat's what I just searched and was able to watch Oppenheimer. The point isn't that it's crummy, the point is that Google or Bing are not answering your query or are answering with junk.
- hulitu 3y agoThis is a known problem since some years. The main problem is that there are no free alternatives. And paying for 2 searches a week makes no sense.
- heavyset_go 3y agoIt's cool, while you waste time wading through a sea of SEO spam, you'll look at plenty of ads.
- bombcar 3y agoFor all the stupid things Google provides a ready answer for, their inability to answer “when does this come available and how” is annoying.
- gonzo41 3y agoIt's funny that there isn't someone just maintaining a community google sheets doc that handles, that then the search can index.
- bombcar 3y agoThere are various sites that do it (with more or less SEO garbage and fake answers, mind you) - but it’s surprisingly hard to find something definite. You’d think some group of obsessives on some forum somewhere would be compiling a database.
- whstl 3y agoWikipedia often has this info, with AI Google can read it.
- jeroenhd 3y agoAI generated websites have ruined "when does X come out". It wouldn't be as big a problem if studios could just announce these things on their website, but instead you need to get this information from interviews and news articles which get overwhelmed by AI trash in most search engines.
- Mindwipe 3y agoPart of the problem is that it isn't as fixed as you think it is, and varies internationally quite rapidly too.
- bombcar 3y agoAnd the companies almost don’t want you to know - they’d rather you rent/buy the video online for $20 instead of waiting a period of time to rent it cheaper.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoHow else will digital sinners learn only to trust corporate streaming services if they are not shown that the alternatives are OBVIOUS ROADS TO DAMNATION? And we all mocked Chick Tracts: https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=1054&ue=d https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=1054&ue=d
- kristopolous 3y agoImagine actually stating this as a business strategy: "and when customers use our product this way, we send scammers to them to shake them down" It's like something out of Monty Python
- pseudotrash 3y ago> "Watch Oppenheimer Free" on Google returns mostly malware and fake media-purchase websites In the EU much of our malware and blogspam is hosted by the EU government itself. We are way ahead here lolol https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=watch%20oppenheimer%20site%3Aeuropa.eu https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=watch%20oppenheimer%20... https://road-safety-charter.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-08/oppenheimer-free-from-online.pdf https://road-safety-charter.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files... Edit: this is the same domain that hosts documents on the latest laws for cybersecurity (Radio Equipment Directive, Cyber Resilience Act, ...). And the same body that airs strong opinions on client side scanning. The same org that wants to be in charge of a EU wide database of vulnerabilities so it can tell you if your patch management process is too slow. ENISA were informed about these problems over 8 months ago. Meanwhile they are publicly ridiculed on social media for not fixing it.
- mxschll 3y agoIf they were using it to educate people about the consequences of piracy, I could understand why they would host that, but that's not the case here. What is the purpose of this?
- pseudotrash 3y agoNot sure if unpatched arbitrary file-upload vulnerabilities that rexult in blogspam and hosted malware, or doctored documents do serve any purpose? But maybe I'm just not thinking adversarial enough :-/
- mxschll 3y agoLol sorry, I missed your sarcasm before. I thought the EU would actually upload this themselves for some bigger purpose. I interpreted too much.
- pseudotrash 3y agoMy bad and apologies for not /s tagging it
- AmazingTurtle 3y agoLook that up on yandex and the first thing is literally a working fast stream with decent quality. wtf