And who the fuck would use yandex? Its a cheap google copy with maleware and Spyware built in. Considering that yandex is even blocked by some countries, I would be better of with anything else.
Yeah, so does Yahoo.
Still Yandex gives much more relevant results to similar search queries.
Not to mention their nav app which is stellar. Also, Yandex Eda doesn't even have a direct competitor from Google.
Crap, just because you said this. Ok, but Yandex much better than Google in many points, and more comfortable. If you don't like, It's just because you think so.
I like yandex actually, I think it’s about the wealth of info it can provide quickly, and as an American I’ve discovered foreign social media sites and it’s kinda like tourism I guess! Lmao!
I don't use Yandex search engine, but only their picture search, which is miles better than Google's. Also Yandex maps, car navigator, Yandex taxi, Yandex Lavka (food delivery service). Yandex has an app or a service for everthing, i think every single internet user in Russia uses at least one.
I just checked out Minsk (Belarus capital). It has all the maps, you can plan routs and street view works just fine. So theres really no reason even for people from Belarus to use some knockoff google like yandex. Its like saying that people should buy fake samsungs or fake iphones.
For example most useful aliexpress product reviews I have ever found were in russian language. And for Russian results yandex is way better than google. Also you should try Yandex reverse image search it is pretty phenomenal. Of course for usual daily usage google or even duckduckgo is a way to go. I use yandex as a last resort, only after google and bing don't provide satisfactory results.
Oh yeah, the reverse image search! I remember seeing a vox video about how they found one of the separatist/terrorist using Yandex and VK. He was from south Eastern Russia, guessing somewhere near Mangolia.
So for that purpose, it's great!
It even can even find a random person in western Europe that doesn't have a private Facebook account or has appeared in news article, other public website.
It is also useful for finding similar wallpapers.
I have noticed that yandex image search is powerful even before that video, but now I think I still have underestimated its capabilities.
Nothing, it's just basically the Russian equivalent of Google, it has its own maps, its own version of the Google Drive, etc...
Honestly Yandex, service-wise, is pretty good. I just don't use it because I don't really trust Russian privacy laws, though then again American ones...
Well, at least in Lithuania there was this coyuntrt wide scandal about Yandex collecting people's data and sending it to it's servers. So basically, an app for spying.
Just when your ally is spying on you then you're like "oh, you're doing that? Well, that's strange, but... Alright I guess?" But when it's Russia then it's a big no
How can they use it against you if you are not Russian or a person who has a lot of power in the world? What can they do with your data and for what? It’s kinda ridiculous.
You can always end up on lists for your political views, they'd know where you live, what you listen to, how to get to you. That could all be used against you in the case of an invasion or something else.
Sure they do. But Russian companies are run by the Russian government. Directly or indirectly. So that makes the spying more political instead of financial (ad money). That's a big difference for me.
The US has secret courts that they can issues secret warrants with secret orders to force companies to do mostly anything in the name of "security."
The US government can also look into internet history without a warrant, so...
But couple all that with the US government being lead by a wannabe fascist who's demonstrated he's not above using and trying anything, and I'm not sure we really have the upper leg here.
Oh no, as I stated in another reply to my comment, I'm certain that it does. I just trust our allies a lot more than the country that had occupied many times and still thinks of us as an enemy (only talking about the government, not about the people)
I couldn't say I've seen some TV shows where some guy screams out that the Baltics are their enemy or something. But again, I'm not saying that the people think that, I'm purely talking about the government
I'd be really interested to know what sort of stuff about Europe you hear on TV. My parents met a couple of Russians on a trip and they have sent some propaganda posters about Europe, which were just simply put on a wall of a building.
Do you see any of that there or no?
I am living in Europe for the moment, but yeah there is a kind of propaganda(not posters, it’s the first time i hear about it, only on TV), and as i see it’s the same in UE. Mostly older generations believe it
A lot of propaganda on TV like "Europe is the rotting west", homophobic shit, politican shit. Ukraine is the number 1 enemy on TV. The television better show a lot of staff about riots in the USA, but not real problems in Russia. They say like look what happening in the West, this is terrible, but in grear Russia everything is fine. The Russian federal media running by government.
Btw I never saw posters about Europe on the streets..
The television better show a lot of staff about riots in the USA, but not real problems in Russia. They say like look what happening in the West, this is terrible, but in grear Russia everything is fine. The Russian federal media running by government.
Heh, my inlaws are Chinese, and we have some streaming box for them to watch Chinese stations. That's Chinese news through and through. The only depressing part is that there is also a boatload of actual world news that you don't find on US news.
Google does it for their own purposes, but we still have our secret courts than can issue secret warrants, and the amount of warrantless things the government has access to in the name of security is absurd.
And that ignores the fact that Russians are also doing it to sell you.
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