Google has made it more difficult for people to save pictures from its image search product, as part of a "peace deal" with photo library Getty Images. In 2017, Getty Images complained to the European Commission, accusing Google of anti-competitive practices. Google said it had removed some features from image search, including the "view image" button. Getty Images said it was a "significant milestone" but critics said the move was "a step backwards".
That's just hugely irritating, much like Getty Images in general.
[There are Chrome extensions available which are generally pretty successful at bypassing this insane piece of corporate control.]
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43085053
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I spotted this last night! Turns out if you click on the image itself you get the full scale view.
ReplyDeleteI thoughtgoogle was just fiddling with the interface, didn’t realse Getty was behind it.
My non-scientific impression is that Image search seems to return less results these days and more of them are Russian.
or just Right Click > Copy image address ... open in new tab etc.
ReplyDeleteRight RMB-> new tab works for me, but not directly clicking the image - that opens the web page.
ReplyDeleteYet another good reason to use DuckDuckGo, then
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