Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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My list:
TheHatedOne
He's hardcore anti-corpo and money-interests, so much that he refuses any sponserships and condemns them universally.
Good stuff, well researched, only downside is that he takes a long time to upload stuff.
I'd consider that "downside" an "upside" (or whatever the word would be) since better quality, but I see what you mean
Fair point lol.
For all the people saying that privacy-oriented Youtube channels are a contradiction.
The point of these channels is to make more people privacy conscious. And where do you find people that aren't very privacy conscious? That's right, YouTube. I actually think what these creators are doing is a great sacrifice in terms of their own, personal privacy, but making people aware.
Exactly!
Mental Outlaw if I want to see a funny corpo le bad video.
Eric Murphy if I'm more serious.
Mental Outlaws tech content is good. But wish he would leave his political views out...
It's sometimes very good content, other times you can tell he's talking out of his ass and trying to be edgy. A good "expert" should be able to admit that they have blind spots, and refer you to better sources of info.
Yeah, I like his content mostly, but he has had a few braindead non-privacy-related takes
such as?
His physical security video after the CTO of square died was not great. It felt too soon to be using his death to spread a message, and it relies far too heavily on the hypothetical idea that a gun could have saved him from harm. I understand that yes, a gun may have been able to prevent the attack, but it felt sort of ridiculous to insinuate that a gun is necessary to avoid a situation like this.
Invidious link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KbfKSXlDeIQ
YouTube link:
What political views? The crypto shilling and advertising his site?
He is very pro to Guns...
Mental Outlaw
SomeOrdinaryGamers (?)
Louis Rossmann (?)
OOO, Louis Rossmann, how could I forget. Need to add to the list :)
I know its not a YouTube channel but man I will prefer Michael Bazell from Intel Techniques over all these YouTube Channels. He does privacy and security for a living so he knows his thing and its very realistic about privacy and security.
sometimes I'll watch Rossmann but anything more and my anxiety spikes
I love how how angry and focused he is. Sometimes I put him on while doing chores to listen to him ramble
I watched him before too. But then somewhere in another YouTuber’s video I heard that in one of the repositories, I think his social network, there was a stub for encryption, although it is still stated that E2EE is there. After this my trust was broken. Plus, I have little trust in people who so actively push their products through video. I think it’s not for nothing that his VPN service is not on the lists of the best.
Not providing any channels (the ones I know the most about are listed by OP and commenters), but more about non-YT versions of channels about privacy being on YT. For people that use YT but are open to LBRY/Odysee/PeerTube. I have found these extensions to be great for quickly seeing if a channel is also on those services. If anyone knows of others like these, I would like to know about them. And for anything that isn't also on them of course Invidious instances are great for at least having some amount of privacy while dealing with YT (at least until Google finds some way to stop them from working).
Disclaimer: I am not a dev (or these or anything) or an auditor of security, so I can't say how good or bad these are outside of personally finding them useful. I also am not affiliated with them and again just find them good for seeing if non-YT versions of channels exist.
For LBRY:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-lbry/
For Odysee:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/
For PeerTube:
Outlaw and hated one, sometimes rossman.
I like Luke, but watched for his opinions in things honestly.
Mainly mental outlaw
Techlore and Mental Outlaw
I've only seen NBTV but interested to check out the others
NBTV is awesome. Really like the way thoughts are presented. And strong stand on privacy.
i'd probably say naomi brockwell's nbtv. idk why but she explains things so easily and makes some okay recommendations. i wouldn't say she gives the best recommendations but her channel is the one i always come back to.