So I absolutely wouldn’t trust it for anything related to politics or Russian interests. Maybe it’s okay from a privacy and non-Russian interest perspective though, idk, but by default I don’t trust it because Russia is so repressive against media in its country.
That said, it seems as if it’s just reducing the search ranking for Russian “disinformation,” not removing results. That’s annoying, but not as troublesome as Yandex or Google. BTW, I found all of those links through DDG, so it’s not like they’re trying to hide anything.
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Do Russia have some fuck up law like USA that the government can access the data of Russian’s companies?
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Thanks for the tip. I’m gonna give it a try
I would not use anything in Russia as Russia isn’t a democracy and does not allow freedom of the press
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The world is truly bazaar
Yeah, Yandex censors quite a bit, at least since the war with Ukraine:
And Yandex altered results to trash Navalny.
But at least they have a banner when they’re likely censoring stuff.
So I absolutely wouldn’t trust it for anything related to politics or Russian interests. Maybe it’s okay from a privacy and non-Russian interest perspective though, idk, but by default I don’t trust it because Russia is so repressive against media in its country.
As for DuckDuckGo, here’s what I found:
That said, it seems as if it’s just reducing the search ranking for Russian “disinformation,” not removing results. That’s annoying, but not as troublesome as Yandex or Google. BTW, I found all of those links through DDG, so it’s not like they’re trying to hide anything.
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