Proton ended up using Google's spam reporting tool earlier this year. There was no indication that Proton had spammed Google. But it seems Proton hoped that by using the form, he could trigger a review by Google which, in turn, would find out what the real problem was. This did not solve the problem. Finally, ProtonMail tweeted for help in August to
Google and former Google web spam manager Matt Cutts, who is on leave from the company and hasn't been involved with it for more than two years. . Also, a new web spam officer was appointed a very long fax number list time ago. Still, reaching out to a semi-old Googler seems to have done the trick. In about a week, the problem was resolved. What exactly happened has never been explained. Enter antitrust concerns This all got attention last week that it
hadn't really received before because Proton published a blog post about it, which raised the specter that it might be related to issues of competition. This incident, however, highlights a previously unrecognized danger that we now call Search Risk. The danger is that any service like ProtonMail can be easily taken down by research companies or the governments that control those research companies. The only reason we survived to tell this story is that the majority of ProtonMail's