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Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed Proton Mail (proton.me)

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Google is excelling again - as the whole "uncensored" Big-Tech IT now.

The short summary is that for nearly a year, Google was hiding Proton Mail from search results for queries such as ‘secure email’ and ‘encrypted email’. This was highly suspicious because Proton Mail has long been the world’s largest encrypted email provider.

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[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

I believe the reason it was posted is because Proton recently linked to the article again on Twitter, claiming that Proton Pass is appearing too far down in Google's search results relative to its popularity. This is when searching for "password manager" (Google's own password manager is the first result).

[-] trouble@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

It’s still misleading

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

For sure, I'm not suggesting otherwise. Just giving some additional context as to why it may have been posted again.

[-] trouble@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you

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