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Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

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Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

Good, I use yandex mail and search and I would mind if it died.

Mail is a no nonsense mail provider, and works everywhere my own tld address is rejected by stupid forms.

And yandex censorship is different than google censorship, so the venn diagam of what you can find with both is pretty good.

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

#52

Post by thriftwy »

H8crilA wrote: post #39
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Ah yes, just like in Russia we all know someone who was put in the trunk of a car by the FBI and driven around the forest just because they didn't want to pay up to the local director and his network of cronies. Or we all know of a prominent local case of a murderer or rapist that was released from prison (without any legal basis), then went on to fight a war for 6 months, then came back to our city with new military…

I am Russian and personally I know nobody with the former or the latter experience.

I don't doubt such cases exist somewhere out there. But the prevalence of such revelations is from people re-posting emigrant press, who often do not have any firsthand Russia experience for a few years now.

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

#53

Post by The_Colonel »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #13

>(Russian Google) Are there people here who don't know Yandex? Genuinely curious, if you didn't know what it is I'd like to hear from you.

I know what it is, but IIRC haven't used it, even a single time.

But I don't think most people around here (Central Europe) heard about it. It's kinda like Baidu in that regard.

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

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Post by alkonaut »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #13

>(Russian Google) Are there people here who don't know Yandex? Genuinely curious, if you didn't know what it is I'd like to hear from you.

I have heard the name before, but only in topics regarding russia, e.g. news about the Moscow stock market or similar. I couldn't tell you what sort of products they have. I have never used one of their sites/products (at least knowingly). I always assumed it was a Russian tech company having 100% Russian users. Basically like vk(ontakte) is, or what Baidu is in China?

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

#56

Post by alephnerd »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #51

Good, I use yandex mail and search and I would mind if it died. Mail is a no nonsense mail provider, and works everywhere my own tld address is rejected by stupid forms. And yandex censorship is different than google censorship, so the venn diagam of what you can find with both is pretty good.

Mail.ru will be owned by the Russian consortium as well. This divestment is to split their startups and a couple EU based assets from their Russian ones.

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

#57

Post by daef »

cqqxo4zV46cp wrote: post #44
yreg wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's a good explanation. If I had no idea what Yandex is, the title would make me think it is a Google subsidiary to evade sanctions or something.

“#1 search engine in Russia”. Done and done.

but what is 'search engine'? /scnr

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

#58

Post by MokaAkashiya »

nsonha wrote: post #46
trompetenaccoun wrote: post #13

>(Russian Google) Are there people here who don't know Yandex? Genuinely curious, if you didn't know what it is I'd like to hear from you.

Their software counterpart seems nice. I have only had experienced with Yandex browser though, at the time I liked to try out different browser to find what work best. Yandex was minimal looking on both mobile and desktop and had nice features such as its equivalent of Opera Turbo, automatically use of a separate container for banking apps etc. They also have a Russian dubbing feature for Youtube but I don't know how…

This is an impressive feature, considering that you can even watch videos from Chinese tech bloggers when there are no prepared English subtitles on YouTube. In other cases, it reads the already written subtitles, but analyzes the speech and divides it into different female/male voices. Some words can be translated funny in the wrong context.

Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

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Post by severino »

I wonder how will Yandex Mail work after this (or maybe currently?) in regards to data protection. I know there exists mail.yandex.com and mail.yandex.ru... is the former, or will it be, based in the Netherlands, meaning that access from western countries with a court order would be granted?
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