yandex.. baidu... and we play around with w10?? lol. ANYTHING is better than w10, privacywise.. just my 2 cents. i like yandex,actually.
you mean you are worried that some secret agent in moscow or beijing wants to read your emails..? tin foil hat required..?
one thing that i do know; maxwell smart from nsa wants to read my emails, and the chinx have not even invented an operating system of their own, yet, neither have the late soviets.. by the time they do that, i will start to scratch my tinfoilhead..it is the corporations from the us of a that are the problem.. EDIT; over amusing thought;kyrilian fonts. even simplified chinese.. could never understand how the chinese handled that; until some executive from huawei explained it to me... what fun would cortana have with those fonts, i wonder.you could even format a disk to only accept those fonts, and m$ would be f***ed happily ever after..
Do you need evidence? I think that a gram of common sense would be more than enough to stay away from anything coming from a big brother. Being a big brother from Mountain View or Moscow is just an irrelevant detail
I mean mostly as in the case of Chinese. Evidence is by far what is required at this point to prove your claims.
I don't think that the company who bought Opera had yet the time to ruin it, wait six months or so. In the meantime all the data managed by the VPN and Operaturbo are flowing trough their servers, and the Sync data are stored there
That is actually the reason, why you should choose them, if you are really concerned about privacy. If you live in EU/US, use Russian or Chinese products and vice versa. KGB and NSA do like to not share. I use Russian browser, emails and encrypted DNS service along with encrypted Startpage's search engine.
This is surely a good point, that I wrote many times. For a western user is better to to face an eastern big brother, at least for now. But until we have independent and trusted browsers like Vivaldi, like some nice open source projects like Otter, Qupzilla, or even Palemoon, I can't see why I should decide between chrome or yandex.
I read the features page for Vivaldi. What technical benefits does it offer that Chrome and Firefox don't? Does it have a Sandbox? Is it hardware-accelerated with either native D3D or OGL (aka, not the D3D-to-OGL Angle stuff Chrome does)? Multi-threaded? PPAPI plugins? Process-separated tabs (aka if a site script does horrible things, will it bring the entire browser and unrelated tabs down too)? Vivaldi looks interesting on the surface and makes it pretty clear it's different by its features page, but under-the-hood stuff matters way more.
Installed it once when the name first came out, uninstalled it as saw no BENEFIT at the TIME. What's the "upside" Now?
i dont think i would feel conferable using a web browser developed by the Russian web search corporation
im sure u can D\L firefox or chrome from russia.....but im sure they rather see their citizens run theirs.
I know that it is safer to sue in the west when your rights are violated but I don't see how you can stand and win against the collection of your personal data over the internet by some of the biggest players in the industry. In other words, the Russian or Chinese spying or collating of your information is not different from the Google or others tech companies in so many ways. Some just do it better than the others.