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Japan anon complains about Google (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 65 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't even care if the results are good. I'm not about to use any part of RUnet.

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honest question: why not? Facebook/Google/Microsoft are up to some disgusting shit, are their Russian counterparts significantly different?

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

Privacy, for one thing. I don't use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren't much different.

Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.

There's also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.

TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.