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I think if Google is going to decide to police the web like this, they need to alert people more proactively. The first the OP should have heard of this was Goo

I think if Google is going to decide to police the web like this, they need to alert people more proactively. The first the OP should have heard of this was Google emailing them through uploader.win's Contact Us email address. It's easy and obvious to find on the site; seems like that should be part of the automated process.

dhosek 6y ago
Locating contact info for websites is not something that can be automated. Some sites provide an email address, some a form, some point people at twitter or facebook and some don't provide any contact information at all. None of this is arranged in any sort of standard way. Contact info may be under a link marked "contact" or "about" or "bio" or appear at the bottom of every page.
- frutmonkey 6y ago
  Legally, every web domain must have a contact point when you register. They shouldn't have to webcrawl for the contact info. Then again, they are already the kings of webcrawling....
  - lostcolony 6y ago
    Yeah; that was my original thought, but not sure how readily available that is without reaching out to the registrar. Certainly, the registrar could be reached out to.
    - colejohnson66 6y ago
      Doesn’t the WHOIS info have it? Even if it’s masked by the registrar’s privacy features, there’s still some email address that can be used.
      - lostcolony 6y ago
        It should, yes. Hard to confirm given, for instance, this site uses whoisguard to hide it, but agreed, that should also be sent to.
- lostcolony 6y ago
  Certainly. If only Google was good at making sense of web page content. Point isn't they need to do it for every site. Just, a semblance of effort seems like the kind of thing that's worth throwing some resources at.
- shadowgovt 6y ago
  Hypothetically, every domain is supposed to have contact information attracted to it. Unfortunately, that was abused.
- jiveturkey 6y ago
  of course it can. there have always been well known contact addresses: hostmaster, postmaster, webmaster, security, abuse, etc. addition now there is the .well-known URL which has an RFC.

dhosek 6y ago

Locating contact info for websites is not something that can be automated. Some sites provide an email address, some a form, some point people at twitter or facebook and some don't provide any contact information at all. None of this is arranged in any sort of standard way. Contact info may be under a link marked "contact" or "about" or "bio" or appear at the bottom of every page.

frutmonkey 6y ago
Legally, every web domain must have a contact point when you register. They shouldn't have to webcrawl for the contact info. Then again, they are already the kings of webcrawling....
- lostcolony 6y ago
  Yeah; that was my original thought, but not sure how readily available that is without reaching out to the registrar. Certainly, the registrar could be reached out to.
  - colejohnson66 6y ago
    Doesn’t the WHOIS info have it? Even if it’s masked by the registrar’s privacy features, there’s still some email address that can be used.
    - lostcolony 6y ago
      It should, yes. Hard to confirm given, for instance, this site uses whoisguard to hide it, but agreed, that should also be sent to.
lostcolony 6y ago
Certainly. If only Google was good at making sense of web page content. Point isn't they need to do it for every site. Just, a semblance of effort seems like the kind of thing that's worth throwing some resources at.
shadowgovt 6y ago
Hypothetically, every domain is supposed to have contact information attracted to it. Unfortunately, that was abused.
jiveturkey 6y ago
of course it can. there have always been well known contact addresses: hostmaster, postmaster, webmaster, security, abuse, etc. addition now there is the .well-known URL which has an RFC.