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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

some choices mentioned are questionable (e.g. Brave and PIA), some good solutions are omitted (Organic Maps), but otherwise it's... surpringly not horrible.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

it's... surpringly not horrible.

Except for the video thumbnail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's said that he hates it just as much, but it's so effective that not doing it is just bad business.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"I know I'm making an idiot of myself but this way I'm making more money"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He runs a business. Many people's livelihoods rely on the performance of their videos.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paint it however you like, it doesn't change the facts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He makes a fool of himself for money. No one is disputing that. You seem to be painting that as a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's the issue with PIA? I've used it for quite a while and am quite happy with it.

The choice that surprised me was them recommending 1Password ($40/year) over Bitwarden ($10/year, solid free plan).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yea, but also PIA has been independently audited multiple times and their zero logs policy seems to hold up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Basically any VPN YouTubers shill is not going to result in a net gain in privacy (depending on your threat model) because many of them sell your data themselves, eagerly log traffic and comply with warrants, etc. Also their server IPs are usually known and blocked from various services.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

yeah, I'm kinda mad that they omitted organic maps, in my experience it is the cleanest osm app available.

(it may not have the most features but it's easy to use and reliable)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Out of the loop; what is wrong with PIA?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the only horrible thing about this is how bad some of the alternatives are; somehow, it seems that google maps is the only one that will give you directions using public transit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

if I had to guess, it's probably somehow related to how everyone uses Google's standard for public transport feed. I just use a separate transit app that covers bajillion of different cities in my country and lets me buy tickets without using Google Pay.

Organic Maps is testing public transport navigation, by the way, but it's not available in released builds yet: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md