[stoperaticless]

It depends on the region.

My neibhours never heard about the need to “denazify” us from Google’s home government.

War is much much worse than google. (Btw. Kagi is nice alternative, where you are the customer, not the product)

> what is the concern

Additional inteligence channel for their three letter agencies.

When somebody asks Yandex for data, decision making is done in such environment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable...

(such environment also suggests how accountable are the people requesting said data)

[ImJamal]

> My neibhours never heard about the need to “denazify” us from Google’s home government.

Plenty of people think Trump is "literally" Hitler... Maybe your neighbors don't think that, but plenty of people do.

[water-data-dude]

Not 100% sure, but I think they might have meant Ukraine when they said “us”

[ImJamal]

The poster was referring to Google's home government, which is the US.