Yandex is great if youre searching for pirated content or for DMCA'd content that ended up on Gitflic.ru
Anti-drm tools are a big case in point. And so is Bypass Paywalls Clean Firefox plugin. All of these have been purged from the "Great American Corporate Firewall".
Russian people != Russian govt != Russian companies.
I just use the tools that work.
Yandex pays taxes in Russia. Which is then directly used at their attempted genocide in Ukraine.
I hope you're exactly as principled when it comes to buying from the companies paying taxes in the UK and USA due to these countries contributing to or directly aiding the genocide in Lebanon and Gaza.
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