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Never expected to see Yandex mentioned in a privacy focused forum…
Depends who you need privacy from. I recall Stallman's advice about VPNs - that to avoid having your information turned over you should choose a VPN from a country whose government is no friend of your government. Depending on your threat model, I could see this being the same principle
Maybe its good for Russians or something