[NEWS] google removes "View Image" button from Google Images

[HooperScooper]

did u forget to take ur pills this morning

how would i know youre torin

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[The Resonte!]

just right click???????????????

too much effort

[datiel12]

???

It's still there for me. Does/did anyone ever even bother to use it anyway?

hover over it

[Master Matthew²]

Google: Removing Features is a Feature

[PhantOS]

Itt: teenage nerds denounce a free service because they added one extra step to a process

[Stellarnaut]

just right click???????????????

what i said

[Fire Vine]

why exactly

[PhantOS]

why exactly

a legal settlement with eu and getty images. basically Google had two choices: pay 2.7 billion dollars or change their image viewing. So obviously they chose the option that wouldn't put half of their staff out of work

[Conan]

a legal settlement with eu and getty images. basically Google had two choices: pay 2.7 billion dollars or change their image viewing. So obviously they chose the option that wouldn't put half of their staff out of work

tbf they wouldnt have to lay off half their staff, but 2.7 billion is a lot to eat in costs

dont understand how half the posters in this thread still express outrage even though the tweet was on the first page

[SeventhSandwich]

this change effectively requires you to make one additional click to do the same thing:

1. open the image on google images
2. right click the full-size preview it shows you
3. copy image address
4. paste in your address bar

[Trogtor]

this change effectively requires you to make one additional click to do the same thing:

1. open the image on google images
2. right click the full-size preview it shows you
3. copy image address
4. paste in your address bar

do you really think the 'preview' they give you is the full size image? because it's not

[SeventhSandwich]

do you really think the 'preview' they give you is the full size image? because it's not

It's resized in the page, but doing what I wrote will bring you to the page source and thus the full-sized image. Just try it dude.

[HooperScooper]

a legal settlement with eu and getty images. basically Google had two choices: pay 2.7 billion dollars or change their image viewing. So obviously they chose the option that wouldn't put half of their staff out of work

but 2.7 billion this is google we're talking about
according to metro, "According to Forbes, Google is valued at $101.8 billion (£76.2 billion)."

[Master Matthew²]

And now its time for massive backlash against getty images that ultimately kills their company.

I doubt that this will actually happen but one of these days some dipstuff is going to """"""protect their copyright"""""" in such a spectacularly handicapped way, it will piss everyone off and ruin their reputation and by extension their business. And when this happens it will set a precedent.... if it ever happens in the first place.

[AutoBahn]

lmao getty cucked Google into a licensing partnership

this is handicapped they could have just dropped listings for getty images and that would have solved the problem