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A window into Yandex’s censorship A source code leak reveals how Russia’s top tech company protects Putin’s image — Meduza

A window into Yandex’s censorship A source code leak reveals how Russia’s top tech company protects Putin’s image — Meduza

Last week, Russian Internet giant Yandex suffered a major source code leak when an unknown user (likely a former employee) published parts of the company’s internal repository online. The leaked code provides new insight into the inner workings of Russia’s largest search engine, which has faced growing criticism in recent years for cooperating with the Kremlin. Among other things, the breach confirmed that Yandex has censored image and video search results to prevent the Z symbol and… Source link

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Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak

Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak

“Fragments” of Yandex’s codebase leaked online last week. Much like Google, Yandex is a platform with many aspects such as email, maps, a taxi service, etc. The code leak featured chunks of all of it.  According to the documentation therein, Yandex’s codebase was folded into one large repository called Arcadia in 2013. The leaked codebase is a subset of all projects in Arcadia and we find several components in it related to the search engine in the “Kernel,” “Library,”… Source link

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