[ceejayoz]

> think Google but in cahoots with the authoritarian government

Sure, but the split appears have been very successful in this regard.

https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine

[lambdadmitry]

Yes, it seems the split was triggered by the war, but the censorship/promotion/collaboration with the government [0] were not worth breaking the ties.

A cynical view would be that it's only now that the association became bad for business.

[0]: By the way, Yandex was showing Crimea as unqualifiedly Russian territory since 2014, until the war, when they just removed borders between countries completely

Edit: qualified the remark

[kgeist]

>By the way, Yandex was showing Crimea as unqualifiedly Russian territory since 2014

Google and Apple used to show it as part of Russia to Russian users as well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/11/27/apple...