The old answer: communicate with major search engines and browser vendors. Dunno what to tell you now...
But to be fair, that small web situation was before my time as well. Afaik that's still the directory to look in though. Complaining to third parties behind these owners' backs is a bit of a dick move, though I can understand the reasoning since most people are not aware of the repercussions (see my other replies in this thread, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397828)