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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by AlecSchueler on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:41AM (#37076765)
Haven't we seen by now countless claims of the Russian government influencing western democracies through things like ad tech?

When millions of us give them our data these kinds of attacks become easier and easier.

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Re:The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:01PM (#37077889)
Fair point, and something that should be considered. Also, we're essentially giving them a free, large scale open source intelligence feed.

But the GRU isn't going to come to my door and arrest me because I searched on the wrong thing, even if I use Yandex. So in that sense, I'm insulated from what they know about me.

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