some choices mentioned are questionable (e.g. Brave and PIA), some good solutions are omitted (Organic Maps), but otherwise it's... surpringly not horrible.
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it's... surpringly not horrible.
Except for the video thumbnail.
He's said that he hates it just as much, but it's so effective that not doing it is just bad business.
"I know I'm making an idiot of myself but this way I'm making more money"
He runs a business. Many people's livelihoods rely on the performance of their videos.
Paint it however you like, it doesn't change the facts.
He makes a fool of himself for money. No one is disputing that. You seem to be painting that as a bad thing.
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).
here's a nice article about Kape Technologies, the owner of PIA and two other VPN services: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape-technologies-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-parent-company-of-cyberghost-vpn/
Thanks.
Yea, but also PIA has been independently audited multiple times and their zero logs policy seems to hold up.
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.
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)
Out of the loop; what is wrong with PIA?
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.
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
As long as you are still sourcing the content from youtube, you're not really de-googled.
Sure, but with the critical mass of videos on Youtube, and the sheer impossibility of consensually mirroring them all on another platform, accessing YT videos with Invidious or Newpipe is at least safer than wading unprotected onto Google's platforms.
Baby steps.
The video is available on floatplane as well if you want to watch not on YouTube/invidious
And bilibili
Yeah it's practically impossible to completely escape GAFAM unless we renounce 'digital life' or make a humongous effort or whatever. It's about reducing / minimizing the amount of shit they know about us, not being the coolest most degoogled guy in the room. I can't afford to quit my job just because they make me use Microsoft Authenticator. So yeah essentially it's better to use Newpipe than Youtube, what a great thing that some dude or dudette decided to develop it for free, Peertube? Even better, yay options, end of story.
Please stop promoting this creep!
I don't know a lot about Linus. What makes him a creep?
His workplace has been accused of being a toxic workplace, including sexual harassment.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/linus-tech-tips-youtube-controversy-1.6940087
That, and he steals from companies that send him devices to review after he completely fucks up testing by doing it against all specs. Must be the one Canadian asshole that exists.
Well-kept secret: There are nice people and assholes anywhere.
Lol, pretty sure you're absolutely right.
I am very confused. Wasn't Linus the one that said that if you watch YouTube videos from creators using adblockers is like pirating their content? I didn't watch the video because I can't stand LTT but I am genuinely confused. Did he change his mind?
his reasoning is that anyone who cares enough to use an adblocker already is, and if it's impossible to prevent it it should at least be done properly
I think if was him he changes that a long time ago, they also have a video about pi-hole.
Edit: Is him yes, he says that in the video around the 14 minute mark.
he promoted ublock and 2 others
The original video: https://youtu.be/GsjHMzGl-VY?feature=shared
You can remove the ?feature= part https://youtu.be/GsjHMzGl-VY
It's for google to track how the people clicking the link got there. E.g. in this case you clicked the "share" button in the YT app
LTT is the worst channel for privacy. I do like the channel for new tech and all but not for digital privacy.
This video isn't removed: https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0
Doesn't even mention Firefox.
I wonder if the title implies that there are some other videos in the series, perhaps with a number lower than 2?
This is part two. Browsers were discussed in part one.
What a fucking joke.