All the sneaky fucks get to hide on the web but us "normals" don't. Seems fair... Archive: https://archive.today/bDf7X From the post: >>“Confirming that we’ve rolled out a fix to prevent this type of abuse of the Refresh Outdated Content tool,” wrote Google spokesperson Davis Thompson in an email to the author and the Freedom of the Press Foundation earlier this month. “We won’t be able to share anymore on this,” he added. The email confirmed the demise of the latest variant of a surprisingly simple technique which allowed anyone to quickly and anonymously remove essentially any webpage — including journalism — from Google search results. An executive from a major U.S. publication, who was granted anonymity to prevent possible retribution against their paper from Google, recalled being shocked that they were able to deindex an old New York Times article as a test, after noticing “hundreds of removals” of their own publication’s articles.