As you know, Yandex that developed a solution on encryption keys for the FSB. And although the details of this decision are not yet available, it is known that the company must somehow comply with the requirements of the Yarovaya Law, while not violating the privacy of users.
In this context, the creator of Telegram Pavel Durov comment on a topic in your channel. He said that in Russia they continue to "nationalize" the business of IT companies. According to him, this may lead to the refusal of Russian users of domestic products in favor of foreign solutions. That is, the effect will be the opposite of import substitution.
Yandex is losing market share to Google, and the lion's share of user activity is migrating from VKontakte to Instagram and YouTube. Thus, the Russian authorities are crippling the local IT market with their own hands, voluntarily handing over the remnants of the true “sovereignty” of the Russian segment of the Internet to US control, along with the data of tens of millions of Russian citizens, ”said the billionaire.
In the light of these events, Durov suggested that Russian IT specialists and developers move to work in Telegram. This has already been implemented during the departure from VKontakte. Back then it was called the Noah's Ark project. Durov said that he was offering them to engage in an analogue of Yandex.News, but without censorship and reference to the Russian-speaking segment and the market.
“Telegram has the amount of data and technology that would enable similar news recommendation services on a global scale — and without political censorship. Instant View news technology already allows you to view the news of 6 thousand publications around the world from any device, and the statistics of their views in each country allows you to algorithmically calculate the most relevant content at the moment. We can start with the Recommended Articles block after reading each article in Telegram, gradually bringing it to the service with an hourly selection and a global search for all the news in the world. In parallel with the recommendation of texts, we will also recommend the most relevant videos. The monetary reward in Telegram is incomparably higher than in Yandex or Google, but I hope this will not be the main motivation. We have a chance to create the first effective and free news aggregator in the history of the Internet,” the developer specified.
Source: 3dnews.ru
