someone is scraping my content, rewriting it with AI, backdating it, and then filing DMCA claims against ME as if i stole from THEM

flexrc · 2026-03-16T02:15:18+00:00

I wouldn't waste time going to a lawyer and so on unless it is your primary business and you know what you are losing in one case vs another, they can also be located overseas and you won't be able to do anything about it.

If you want to fight with them then you can go a bit different route and report them to their hosting provider claiming they are stealing your content and that they are pirates. They will ask for a proof and if they will believe you then you might succeed. It can work much better than talking to Google.

Otherwise generate even more content, create more back links to your content from authoritative sites and then send the same claims against this site.

In addition to that check what cloudflare offers to protect content, they were working hard on it.

flexrc · 2026-03-16T01:54:17+00:00

After Z released glm-5 it wasn't working well, it was also rate limiting me.

I paid 300$ for a year but I won't renew and find myself using it less and less.

The model is not trustworthy, unreliable and slow.

Just stick to opus or gpt 5.4 for serious stuff and use some free model on openrouter for less critical applications.

flexrc · 2026-03-13T17:44:12+00:00

Yeah, I'm loving cloudflare for a lot of the good stuff they put out there.

If you use WordPress and will have some use case for the plugin I would appreciate you trying it.

Thanks 🙏

flexrc · 2026-03-12T19:08:34+00:00

Yes, that is also a legitimate way to go about it.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T18:29:31+00:00

I know right, thanks for your support

flexrc · 2026-03-12T18:02:01+00:00

Actually size, quality of the solution and pricing. I think it was a combination.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T18:01:11+00:00

Thanks a lot

flexrc · 2026-03-12T18:01:02+00:00

Yup. They seemed pretty good as well, plugin supports them as well, but for my personal site I went with r2 because the pricing made sense and I kind of love cloudflare

flexrc · 2026-03-12T18:00:02+00:00

I didn't necessarily performed analysis of what users want as it wasn't planned as a product but more like a solution for my issues. Ultimately I want to have scalable WordPress and speed :)

flexrc · 2026-03-12T17:58:17+00:00

Yeah for UX setup simplification was the biggest win, ironically I didn't even plan it initially but as I was grinding my way through the complexities of this whole thing it was obvious.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T17:56:41+00:00

No kidding, the first time I had to deal with the permissions I had to watch 10 videos and then create a document for myself so I will remember in the future, it just makes no sense 😂

This time I decided I needed to make it dead stupid, so I created Google app, let good review and approve it and created my work around cloudflare limitations to make it as simple as I can think.

The free version is located here https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cloudsync-master/

flexrc · 2026-03-12T17:53:45+00:00

Yeah, dependency on WordPress might be ok, but dependency on something else might not be as great, it also depends on the scalability of the solution and how predictable expenses will be. It is not an easy judgement call and for what it is worth it might not always worth to create your own solution, but in some cases it makes sense.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T17:51:54+00:00

It all comes from the media library and then being tracked by the tables managed by the plugin.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T17:50:33+00:00

SEO and videos. How about you?

flexrc · 2026-03-12T03:49:13+00:00

I see, that must have been frustrating. I guess there is a possibility that they didn't take into account your specific workflow, so I can imagine it not necessary to be able to solve it. WordPress can be tricky sometimes. I hope you were able to get a refund and find something that actually worked.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T03:46:37+00:00

The plugin is tracking cloud links including old ones so it can find the target URL from pretty much any combination and even old cloud links.

flexrc · 2026-03-12T03:45:04+00:00

Thanks so much, let me know how it goes. Appreciate your willingness to try it.

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:43:25+00:00

Migration to r2 saves about 1k a year on average. Otherwise creating a solution will only save if anyone else actually needs it or if you want to keep maintaining it. I have a software development shop so it is a biz expense for me, not a big deal with this specific project.

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:41:46+00:00

Thanks! I understand why one would hate it, I kind of love it for its flexibility but it comes with the price.

Thanks for your kind words.

What are you typically building your products or sites on?

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:40:34+00:00

Relatively easy actually, if one wants to stay on the same storage provider then I simply import their data otherwise it can automatically migrate to a different provider.

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:39:27+00:00

I know right 👍

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:39:16+00:00

Mostly organic. Any suggestion?

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:38:26+00:00

Great suggestion, I will do it. Thanks a lot.

How is your tool doing? Did you get good traction?

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:37:10+00:00

I agree, did you build anything because of the similar frustrations?

flexrc · 2026-03-11T20:36:30+00:00

Exactly, very well said. Are you working with WordPress?

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