(01-26-2019, 03:10 AM)Kururin Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't want to use yandex per say since it's a Russian site. You never know what they are saving (just out of sake of privacy). Except that functionality wise its awesome 
i hoped it would become a lame excuse after the way all the things involving Facebook, Cambridge analytica and other big companies and their misuse of user data got wide coverage the past years. but no... apparently not.
everyone saves all the data they can and more. that is the best thing to assume these days.
(01-26-2019, 04:51 AM)rudra Wrote: [ -> ]i hoped it would become a lame excuse after the way all the things involving Facebook, Cambridge analytica and other big companies and their misuse of user data got wide coverage the past years. but no... apparently not.
everyone saves all the data they can and more. that is the best thing to assume these days.
Umm, if you use alternative you can always avoid that. Instead of gmail use protonmail, instead of twitter use mastodon, facebook can be tossed off, using telegram, signal instead of whatsapp and other platform like messenger. If you toss of privacy that's your choice, but don't lable it as "excuse" to forget about it, and prevent people from taking these measures when they definitely can.
(01-26-2019, 03:10 AM)Kururin Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't want to use yandex per say since it's a Russian site. You never know what they are saving (just out of sake of privacy). Except that functionality wise its awesome
I'm beginning to wonder whether with all of the new rules and regulations that Google, Facebook, and all the other mega internet corporations in the West are making - basically intruding in my freedom of the Internet and causing people to charge me mega bucks for all kinds of things - whether going into a Russian direction may not be such a bad idea. For example, maybe I should get a domain.ru instead of .com.
(01-26-2019, 09:03 AM)deanhills Wrote: [ -> ]I'm beginning to wonder whether with all of the new rules and regulations that Google, Facebook, and all the other mega internet corporations in the West are making - basically intruding in my freedom of the Internet and causing people to charge me mega bucks for all kinds of things - whether going into a Russian direction may not be such a bad idea. For example, maybe I should get a domain.ru instead of .com.
I think Russian sites are good as long you don't mention anything about their leaders? Or maybe they are collecting mass info on U.S citizen to do some sort of stuff? Call it conspiracy but you never know. Better to be safe than sorry