I’ve been using Yandex on Windows for months now because I just didn’t want to use Google for everything anymore. However, I never see anything about Yandex online about how secure or good it is and combined with the fact that it’s a Russian company I know nothing about, it just doesn’t feel right to me.
So my question is whether Yandex is safe for me to use and, if it’s not, which browser would be a good alternative. The main reason for choosing Yandex over anything else is Picture in Picture.
Never heard of Yandex be careful
duckduckgo is a secure alternative. good combo with firefox.
i really like the “bangs” feature with it. so for exampe you only need to type:
!yt
to get to youtube.com which is very fast
Don’t want google knowing stuff about you? Trust Russians to keep you safe!
Wait why dont you want to use Google?
It’s a Russian based company. It’s the most popular search engine in Russia. It is a safe ( with built in protection) chromium based, though slow, browser. You’re fine.
Well that’s basically the point of my post. I don’t know if I can trust them. Blatantly not trusting them just because they’re Russian is just stupid. I trust “the Russians” as much as I trust “the Americans”…
Basically because I just don’t want a company to know literally everything about me anymore. I want to limit it as much as I can.
Good point. I would presume if you don’t have an account with them like you do with google and you are using a vpn then you are as secure as you can be.