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Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by woof »

Joe-Z wrote: post #8
dvt wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The missing guidelines:

* Please read submissions before commenting on them

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by Jerry2 »

ProtonMail is not safe. To delete someone's ProtonMail account, just print their email onto some posters, put it up in some public place, take a picture of it and tweet it to ProtonMail. And just like that, the email of your target will be probably deleted.

https://i.imgur.com/d9K9Wdm.png

This is not a service you want to use for anything important. If you have some enemies, they can use this method to ban you.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by DanBC »

Jerry2 wrote: post #22

ProtonMail is not safe. To delete someone's ProtonMail account, just print their email onto some posters, put it up in some public place, take a picture of it and tweet it to ProtonMail. And just like that, the email of your target will be probably deleted. https://i.imgur.com/d9K9Wdm.png This is not a service you want to use for anything important. If you have some enemies, they can use this method to ban you.

dishonest summaries don't help your point.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by [deleted] »

Jerry2 wrote: post #22

ProtonMail is not safe. To delete someone's ProtonMail account, just print their email onto some posters, put it up in some public place, take a picture of it and tweet it to ProtonMail. And just like that, the email of your target will be probably deleted. https://i.imgur.com/d9K9Wdm.png This is not a service you want to use for anything important. If you have some enemies, they can use this method to ban you.

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Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by Cenk »

Jerry2 wrote: post #22

ProtonMail is not safe. To delete someone's ProtonMail account, just print their email onto some posters, put it up in some public place, take a picture of it and tweet it to ProtonMail. And just like that, the email of your target will be probably deleted. https://i.imgur.com/d9K9Wdm.png This is not a service you want to use for anything important. If you have some enemies, they can use this method to ban you.

This is hyperbolic and dishonest at best. Please leave your memes on reddit.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by Quarrelsome »

Jerry2 wrote: post #22

ProtonMail is not safe. To delete someone's ProtonMail account, just print their email onto some posters, put it up in some public place, take a picture of it and tweet it to ProtonMail. And just like that, the email of your target will be probably deleted. https://i.imgur.com/d9K9Wdm.png This is not a service you want to use for anything important. If you have some enemies, they can use this method to ban you.

Are we complaining that you can't put up a poster explicitly designed to incite violence against anti-fascists with a ProtonMail email address? I'd imagine they might also disable your account if you use swastikas as your logo, is that "awful censorship"? If you wanna do that sort of stuff then roll your own ffs. Consider that they might have some form of legal liability.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by mcny »

tomtomistaken wrote: post #4
tpolzer wrote: post #2

Has to be a transient problem, I get ProtonMail as first unpaid search result for both queries they mention.

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.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by mindondrugs »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #27
Jerry2 wrote: post #22

ProtonMail is not safe. To delete someone's ProtonMail account, just print their email onto some posters, put it up in some public place, take a picture of it and tweet it to ProtonMail. And just like that, the email of your target will be probably deleted. https://i.imgur.com/d9K9Wdm.png This is not a service you want to use for anything important. If you have some enemies, they can use this method to ban you.

Are we complaining that you can't put up a poster explicitly designed to incite violence against anti-fascists with a ProtonMail email address? I'd imagine they might also disable your account if you use swastikas as your logo, is that "awful censorship"? If you wanna do that sort of stuff then roll your own ffs. Consider that they might have some form of legal liability.

Exactly this, complaining that a site banned you for breaking ToS is kinda stupid.
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