Perhaps I’m not understanding but why couldn’t PH just remove the thumbnails so they couldn’t be indexed anymore? Sure, Google should have a mechanism so material like that isn’t indexed but Google isn’t the only search engine and PH shouldn’t be hosting that content, not even as a thumbnail.
> why couldn’t PH just remove the thumbnails so they couldn’t be indexed anymore?
> Kevin responded again, insisting that Pornhub “can NOT” remove content from other sites. However, that doesn’t seem to be completely accurate. Pornhub offers something called its “exclusive model program,” which promises that it will send takedown notices to any website to “help protect your content from being uploaded to other websites.”
I am not sure that PornHub actually hosts those thumbnails or necessarily controls them. Sending a takedown notice indicates to me that they don't control that content. They would just be requesting removal.
Even if they did remove it, how long would it take for google to remove their copy? That's why it's better to have an on-demand mechanism to remove content.
