Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova

Microsoft signed a deal in 2015 to set Yandex as the default search engine in several countries close to Russia. The article mentions &quot;Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Ukraine&quot;. The list is not exhaustive, as I know about Moldova and Georgia. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;microsoft-partners-russias-yandex-windows-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowscentral.com&#x2F;microsoft-partners-russias-ya...</a><p>The list includes Ukraine! I&#x27;ve tested Edge with Ukraine as a Region on my MacOS, and it no longer appears to set it to Yandex.<p>But it still does for several other countries. Which includes Moldova. Moldova is a country that Russia has repeatedly threatened. While advanced users may try and remove Yandex as default, non-tech savvy users likely leave the defaults.<p>Meaning Microsoft Edge shares data with Russia by setting Yandex as a default search engine for their users, which is really bad.<p>Please upvote this story to give it visibility. Many thanks!

Given MSFT&#x27;s troubled history with browsers, it is amazing how one product, one group, can continue to produce one PR black eye after another in the modern era.<p>Between integrating predatory BNPL, the microsoft-edge: overriding default browser nonsense, injecting ads on the Chrome site, and now this ... one has to wonder, is this all some joke?<p>Either Satya and friends are asleep at the broser wheel, or the whole subject is too annoying&#x2F;toxic for them to address directly.

I see often enough cyrillic street names in Google Maps or Street View in Germany using Windows in Germany with regional settings for one of former soviet “republics”. Tried to report it to Google but nobody cares despite russian language and cyrillic writings have nothing in common with my regional settings.

I use yandex over google&#x2F;bing. Works well for western censored content - however it does have a clear disinfo bent for english language searches. I still prefer it over google simply because it returns results like google used to in 2010 or so lol. Give it a go, you&#x27;ll see what I mean.