Did you not read the article? It was eventually "fixed."

> ProtonMail tracked this situation through Spring 2016, trying to get in touch with Google to query why it had vanished from search results — and initially having no luck getting a response. It only eventually got an acknowledgment of the complaint in August after it had tweeted at Google staff.

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. HN-Guidelines tell us to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It wouldn't take anything away from your response just leaving that question out.

BTT: Why is this even an article on here anyway when the situation has been dealt with one year ago? The title should already mention that it's from 2016.

I get what you say about not insinuating, though I feel the two people who asked so far weren't so much insinuating as actually puzzled, as it genuinely seemed the parent couldn't have read the article and still thought it was an ongoing issue.

The missing guidelines:

* Please read submissions before commenting on them

The question "Did you even read the article?" adds nothing of value, if not downright hostility. When someone asks a question/writes an uninformed response and one wants to respond to it, fine. But don't complain that someone made you respond to it.

That why google is there. If it is facebook, things would be different

There was a "fix" in August after a public intervention from protonmail. Did you read the article?

The submission is flawed. There is no [2016] in the title. I wish I could downvote submissions because I would give this post -2.