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My only interaction with Pinterest is that it dominates Google Image Search results, and then when you click on the result the image is nowhere to be found. Wish Google would do something about that.

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They already did. You likely won't have that same issue anymore.

When did that happen? Just did a search and amazingly didn't find a single pinterest image when the last time I ran the same query it was nothing but. Huge improvement.

Had that issue over the weekend, and it's still happening today with the same search.

What did Google change?

To make matters worse, Google Image Search removed the feature that let you follow a link directly to the image itself.

DuckDuckGo has a far superior image search just for this reason. You can actually get a link to the image from the search results. As a bonus the link is often a DuckDuckGo proxy, so you don't even need to send someone to the source site - which is usually awful.

And when they get big enough, Getty will sue them as well, since this feature was removed as a settlement of a lawsuit.

Then someone else will come along and offer exactly the same functionality...

And the thumbnails are >100DPI, for modern screens.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...

that was part of a settlement from a Getty Images lawsuit

Aren't all the Getty images water marked though? WOuldn't this have driven traffic to them?

Why would it? Thumbnail watermarks are usually too small to see, and when you click to the image to go to Pinterest, all you'd see is the 'signup now' modal, with another group of thumbnails greyed out peeking around the edges.

As someone else noted Google has disabled this behavior.

Nope, not all the ones people paid to license for just their site.

A nice workaround is to right click the expanded image in the search results and click "view image" or "copy image location"

since others have the Chrome|ium extension linked already; a Firefox extension that re-adds that functionality:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-google-i...

this extension adds that back: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...

Or you just get login/signup screen. Horrible UX.

And if you’re on mobile, they take up like 40% of your screen to insist you use the app.

Websites and web based services trying to force me to download an app, which is basically just a container for displaying the same web content, are honestly in the top five worst things about the modern web. And it’s competition involves Nazis invading social networks, erosion of privacy, etc.

You probably haven't used the app in the last 6 months. The mobile website was completely redone and doesn't force you to use the app anymore. See: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/a-one-year-pwa-ret...

Wow, you Pinterest employees are all over this submission.

If you're lucky, you can get around that by requesting the desktop site.

Would love an add-on/extension for mobile browsers that stops sites from injecting links to the app store.

uBlock Origin for Firefox Mobile might be doing that. I cannot recall seeing any of these in recent times, but I'm not sure if that's just because the websites I visit don't have any.

I keep seeing this complaint but I've never come across it. I honestly can't remember ever being sent to Pinterest from GIS. Perhaps I'm searching for the wrong things?

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