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De-Google Your Life - Part 1 - YouTube LTT (youtu.be)

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yandex might be the same as Google, but spreading your footprint across services still has value as a technique for mitigation. The only other thing I use Yandex for is the occasional image search since it can sometimes do a better job than others.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

Fair enough; however, to me it's only optimal when there are no alternatives.

But to each their own.