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sucks to hear yandex is the goat at reverse image search and every year google gets shittier what with it being so personalized and openly censored
Yandex now completely taken over by Russia - Putin's close ally, Alexei Kudrin, is pretty much taking over the helm. >

"alright we tried to do the free and good society thing and it didn't work. Back the old ways" >

Except that they didn't, they sold out to the government quite quickly and became a part of the government propaganda on the internet side, blocking news and search results from "unfavorable" media outlets >

How do you suppose they stay independent from the tyranny of Russia while operating in Russia? >

I feel bad for Yandex, they weren't a bad business but it's hard to operate in the global market when their core audience is in a backsliding country. They had a thriving business in Ukraine until the Crimea situation. >

5/6, and now 6/7 parent comments in this thread contain the word “window”. >

That's every thread about Russia. Bunch of tired window jokes and redditors beating dead horses. >


and redditors beating dead horses

How is it a dead horse if it's still actively occurring? >

OP is upset at redditors for pointing out Putin is recycling his boring stale plot. 
When did Putin become so predictable? Was he always like this? It seems odd we used to think he was some sort of genius tyrant. >

Rusky government preparing to go hard on the information front? Maybe for the massive loses to come in the donetsk front? Can't see why a full takeover from now would have been different VS months before..