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0 pointsjaysonqpt4y ago0 comments

In theory, self hosting works. I have my content self hosted. In this case, they sent a DMCA request to Google and they delisted my webpage from Google. 99% of my traffic simply dropped.

In addition, all Google properties picked up the DMCA action on Google index and started sending me warning and suspension of ads etc.

I have sent a detailed counter notice. But even after 12 days, I am yet to hear back from Google.

So self-hosting may work for Github, but not if you want presence in Google index.

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manquer4y ago

Google could de-index you for arbitrary reasons too. The key is you didn’t loose your content itself as many YouTube channels had found the hard way, and YouTube doesn’t use actual DMCA to circumvent liability clauses .

If you are running a business using your content, then google deindexing can be bad, as can many other U.S. laws and other conventions, like how they how banks generally treat adult businesses even though they are legal or weed companies etc .

For non professionals , google or any other third party actions shouldn’t have any impact on be able to create and share their content.

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