diff --git a/libre2.symbols b/libre2.symbols
index 93b71b486..0cab3d94b 100644
--- a/libre2.symbols
+++ b/libre2.symbols
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 		# re2::RE2*
 		_ZN3re23RE2*;
 		_ZNK3re23RE2*;
-		# re2::StringPiece*
-		_ZN3re211StringPiece*;
-		_ZNK3re211StringPiece*;
 		# re2::operator<<*
 		_ZN3re2ls*;
 		# re2::FilteredRE2*
diff --git a/libre2.symbols.darwin b/libre2.symbols.darwin
index 41ac96f93..754f45cd2 100644
--- a/libre2.symbols.darwin
+++ b/libre2.symbols.darwin
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 # re2::RE2*
 __ZN3re23RE2*
 __ZNK3re23RE2*
-# re2::StringPiece*
-__ZN3re211StringPiece*
-__ZNK3re211StringPiece*
 # re2::operator<<*
 __ZN3re2ls*
 # re2::FilteredRE2*
diff --git a/re2/stringpiece.h b/re2/stringpiece.h
index 6d11d16a0..e9367bff3 100644
--- a/re2/stringpiece.h
+++ b/re2/stringpiece.h
@@ -9,14 +9,8 @@
 
 namespace re2 {
 
-// RE2 has two versions: "sans Abseil" in the main branch; and "avec Abseil" in
-// the abseil branch. This has led to a diamond dependency problem for projects
-// like Envoy: as per https://github.com/google/re2/issues/388, GoogleTest took
-// a dependency on RE2 avec Abseil, but other things depend on RE2 sans Abseil.
-// To resolve this conflict until both versions can migrate to std::string_view
-// (C++17), those other things must be able to #include "re2/stringpiece.h" and
-// use re2::StringPiece. (This is a hack, obviously, but it beats telling every
-// project in this situation that they have to perform source transformations.)
+// Until RE2 requires C++17 and uses std::string_view, allow users to
+// continue to #include "re2/stringpiece.h" and use re2::StringPiece.
 using StringPiece = absl::string_view;
 
 }  // namespace re2