Im currently using bravesearch,however yandex blows every search engine out of the water when it comes to piracy and pirated streams. U can literally search “X vs Y free live stream” and boom, yandex will provide u with free and high quality streams. Its kinda like how google was back in 2014/15. Excluding all of that they also provide the best reverse image search results and their overall UI design and search results arent bad. The only concern with yandex is about their privacy policy and how they handle user data. What do yall think?
Points to consider:
- They are Russian company now (not even “we are technically Netherlands company with a lot of people in Russia”, this was changed recently. Owners were also changed. Some people say new ones are related to Russian goverment).
- Russia does have a lot of intersting laws about cybercrime, etc. It basically means that if FSB wants to knew something about your searches - they would get it and it would fully legal. It’s unlikely that Yandex would even try to fight this in current climate.
- Russia does have anti-piracy services (and Yandex do have agreement with them which basically mean they could just report bad links and they would be taken care of) but they mostly for companies who ARE present in Russia in some form. Most Western movie companies decided they don’t want to work in Russia anymore (sometimes it’s true, sometimes they are only SAY so).
- There are some talks about compulsory licensing of media content in Russia (Legal russian online movie services said they don’t need such “help”)
I think, If you are NOT location in Russia or exUSSR countries - you wouldn’t have any problems at all from them.
Yandex is great for finding things that are being actively covered up by the American search companies.
I wouldn’t use it all the time. But it filters things differently from Google/Bing
I think that if you’re using a VPN + using a fingerprint-resistant browser, you’re probably fine if you use it for live streams and stuff.
But I wouldn’t do research on my mental health problems or anything like that using it.
Yandex is a failure from a privacy perspective. They will constantly block you with captchas if you disable JavaScript, making them far inferior to DuckDuckGo. They also push you to make an account, which would tie all of your searches together. You shouldn’t trust them with your data.
They don’t censor the same things that western search engines censor, so it’s a good backup if you think that your regular search engine is censoring a particular search
I absolutely love Kagi
is about their privacy policy
nyet, is bad.
If you don’t find it on google use yandex.
Best ever for images and reverse image search
I routinely use Yandex for image search (otherwise - DuckDuckGo is my Go-to) and it’s genuinely great for that. Ironically I remember when Firefox came with Yandex by default in Russia (and possibly other countries in the area) and I hated it back then. I’d say they definitely improved it since though, never thought I’d say it, but I prefer it to Google now.
If you’re just using the search engine, not their browser, and not logging into a Yandex account, you should be fine. Assigning yandex.ru and/or yandex.com to a separate container in Firefox, as with Facebook, would help too, keeping it isolated from data from other sites you visit.
It’s actually really good
Ever heard of the word “Kompromat”? If they can find something to extort you with, the FSB will.
Use a VPN, Linux, and clear the cache and hide the fingerprinting of your browser
Avoid anything American, Chinese or Russian.
I’ve never had a search engine return more questionably legal search results, so if you’re not great at figuring out what to avoid before clicking through, steer clear.
If you like using a Russian search engine then go for it
Just save some pirate sites and search on it. Don’t use any of yandex services if it’s possible, It’s an FSB rathole.
I would not touch anything online that is Russian with a 100ft stick, do people even realize we’re in cyberwarfare with them?
Its russian, what else do you need to know?
I wouldn’t touch anything Russian with a long stick. It’s not an opinion based on precise hard facts, I agree. But I would have almost the same precautions for Google.