The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data • Hacker News Board

Re: The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

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Post by jnsaff2 » Sat, Aug 12, 2023, 12:00 PM UTC

undefinedland wrote: post #79

VincentEvans wrote: post #60

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As russian, when I encounter people comparing the state of media in Russia to the worst excesses of government influence in media in US like they are comparable - I think to myself “what a bunch of fucking idiots”. It’s the same ignorant halfwit crowd that compares minor inconvenience to Holocaust, having to follow an HOA rule to Stalin’s repressions, and anyone telling them what they don’t like to Hitler. I live in…

As a person with Polish heritage, it's interesting how we see things differently. Best of luck to you. Edit: I live in Australia.

You mean Austria? People often mix them up.

Re: The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

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Post by darthrupert » Sun, Aug 13, 2023, 8:54 AM UTC

VK538FY wrote: post #204

darthrupert wrote: post #177

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Of course we are focusing on the Russian part. Russia has made themselves the enemy of the west, so their spying is several factors more serious case than just a simple violation of privacy.

What is an enemy of the west and what is a friend of the west? Take a random western country like France. Do you know how many Franco-Russian 'cercles d'amitié' there are? Go search in Yandex... or Google. Many quite old with a noteworthy history of cultural exchange. No idea if that exists in the anglosphere (not my speciality). Washington, Brussels or the guy in the Élysée palace can't really transcend that.

Being a friend of Russia as a country of russians is one thing, and being a friend of the Putin regime is another.

I have nothing against the former, and everything against the latter.

Re: The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

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Post by lampshades » Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 8:15 PM UTC

ric2b wrote: post #278

lampshades wrote: post #196

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I use Yandex whenever I feel like Google is censoring something. Turns out I feel that way a lot.

Is the feeling right more or less often than you expect?

Originally it was right more often than I expected but now I have a pretty good sense that I'm usually right.