[app4soft]

> I think you forgot to finish your thought

Oh, YEAH!

On December 31, 2020 the Russian government approved a list of Russian programs that must be preinstalled on all mobile devices and computers imported into Russia, including next software:

- Yandex (as search engine), Yandex.Browser (as default browser), Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Disk;

- Mail.Ru, Mail.Ru News;

- ICQ (owned by Mail.Ru);

- VK (VKontakte), OK (OdnoKlasniki);

- Gosuslugi (for communicating with official governmental Portal of state services of Russian Federation);

- MyOffice Documents;

- Kaspersky Antivirus.

This regulation comes into force on April 1, 2021.[0]

Enjoy!

NOTE: For security reasons, keep uMatrix & uBlock Origin turned ON while visiting reference link!

[0] http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/00012021010600...

[PDF] http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/File/GetFile/000120210106001...

[ranguna]

They are just doing what Google is doing IMHO

[app4soft]

Google is private corporation which produces own device & own operating system for them (aka "Android"). Google is not government of USA. US citizens may not buy Google device with preinstalled Google apps.

Russian government does not produces own devices even own operating system, but want preinstall apps developed by russian devs (controlled by FSB RF) on all devices produced by other countries. Russian citizens would not be able to buy any device without preinstalled apps required by Russian government since April 1, 2021.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ranguna]

True, I guess it's a bad move on both Google and Russia, if what you're saying is true.

[idoubtit]

> For security reasons, keep uMatrix & uBlock Origin turned ON while visiting reference link!

All it takes to protect oneself against the FSB is turning on uBlock? Really?

Some may remember what a Google team (Project Zero) discovered in China in 2019: the government used several official and private web sites to exploit 0-day vulnerabilities in iphones so that they could track the Uighur people. Apple later confirmed the hacking campaign.

> the Russian government approved a list of Russian programs that must be preinstalled …

Maybe the malicious intent that is heavily suggested here exists, but this list needs some explanation, which I found online.

By the end of 2019, the Russian government decided to promote the Russian software by pre-installing the most popular of them on every device sold. Russian companies were to submit their candidacy, and the government promised it would select the application with the most users during 2020.