Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
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Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#2Microsoft signed a deal in 2015 to set Yandex as the default search engine in several countries close to Russia. The article mentions "Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Ukraine". The list is not exhaustive, as I know about Moldova and Georgia. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-partners-russias-ya...
The list includes Ukraine! I've tested Edge with Ukraine as a Region on my MacOS, and it no longer appears to set it to Yandex.
But it still does for several other countries. Which includes Moldova. Moldova is a country that Russia has repeatedly threatened. While advanced users may try and remove Yandex as default, non-tech savvy users likely leave the defaults.
Meaning Microsoft Edge shares data with Russia by setting Yandex as a default search engine for their users, which is really bad.
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Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#3I use yandex over google/bing. Works well for western censored content - however it does have a clear disinfo bent for english language searches.
I still prefer it over google simply because it returns results like google used to in 2010 or so lol. Give it a go, you'll see what I mean.
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#4Microsoft signed a deal in 2015 to set Yandex as the default search engine in several countries close to Russia. The article mentions "Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Ukraine". The list is not exhaustive, as I know about Moldova and Georgia. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-partners-russias-ya... The list includes Ukraine! I've tested Edge with Ukraine as a Region on my MacOS, and it no longer appears to set it to Ya…
Incredibly damning of Microsoft if they were making deals after 2014 to help the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
That they would still be participating in this deal is even worse.
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#5I use yandex over google/bing. Works well for western censored content - however it does have a clear disinfo bent for english language searches. I still prefer it over google simply because it returns results like google used to in 2010 or so lol. Give it a go, you'll see what I mean.
yandex and RT are the top of rus disinformation and anti-west/divisive content.
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#6I use yandex over google/bing. Works well for western censored content - however it does have a clear disinfo bent for english language searches. I still prefer it over google simply because it returns results like google used to in 2010 or so lol. Give it a go, you'll see what I mean.
yandex and RT are the top of rus disinformation and anti-west/divisive content.
I've experienced more divisive content from western media itself than overt anti-west stuff from RT or yandex lmao.
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#7Microsoft signed a deal in 2015 to set Yandex as the default search engine in several countries close to Russia. The article mentions "Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Ukraine". The list is not exhaustive, as I know about Moldova and Georgia. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-partners-russias-ya... The list includes Ukraine! I've tested Edge with Ukraine as a Region on my MacOS, and it no longer appears to set it to Ya…
Incredibly damning of Microsoft if they were making deals after 2014 to help the Russian aggression against Ukraine. That they would still be participating in this deal is even worse.
Ukraine banned yandex in 2017 for mass data harvesting of Ukrainians, probably that's the main reason why gp did not find it in Ukrainian Bing. It's still possible and perfectly legal to access yandex or other data harvesting engines/disinfo websites over VPN or Tor, so the ban main objective is to protect non-tech-savvy users from the interference of hostile foreign criminals.
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#8Given MSFT's troubled history with browsers, it is amazing how one product, one group, can continue to produce one PR black eye after another in the modern era.
Between integrating predatory BNPL, the microsoft-edge: overriding default browser nonsense, injecting ads on the Chrome site, and now this ... one has to wonder, is this all some joke?
Either Satya and friends are asleep at the broser wheel, or the whole subject is too annoying/toxic for them to address directly.
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
yandex and RT are the top of rus disinformation and anti-west/divisive content.
I've experienced more divisive content from western media itself than overt anti-west stuff from RT or yandex lmao.
Feel free to move to Russia if you don’t live there already and you’ll no longer have to worry about being exposed to western media!
Re: Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've experienced more divisive content from western media itself than overt anti-west stuff from RT or yandex lmao.
Feel free to move to Russia if you don’t live there already and you’ll no longer have to worry about being exposed to western media!
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