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I can't claim such with 100% certainty, but Signal's background is highly suspicious and great choice to use Session

@EruTech They don't fund for free, so suspicious from just that.

Very glad you found my video helpful & I aspire to reach the level of greatness of both those legends.

@@EruTech Well, maybe one day you'll be able to at least stand on their shoulders,fren

Brave really is cutting edge, used to be a Firefox user myself too but it really has fallen off in recent years. Glad I could help you make the switch and that you're enjoying it!

🤣 reminds mr of mr rogers

Absolutely. It's a multi-faceted issue, posture & usage are important considerations too and shouldn't be ignored.

Totally valid points. I agree having the correct posture and additional wrist support are great measures to adapt too. Nevertheless I'd still take a trackball over a traditional mouse. This is because if you're using sharp mouse movements, like in gaming for example, the wrist may end up strained even with those additional measures you mentioned. Hence why I believe a trackball is the key to resolving the problem as it removes the need for wrist movements entirely.

I have! In my experience I'd certainly rate it higher than a traditional mouse, however since a vertical mouse still requires wrist movements, I still found a trackball the better option.

thorium

Ungoogled Chromium or Zen Browser

@@WhipLash2457 "yeah i use thorium" LMFAO

Opera deserves a F

So real

Thanks Zeke, it's much appreciated!

@VivaldiBrowser Well since you asked for it....Check out my latest video where I've ranked Vivaldi too! ua-cam.com/video/MkuZhJ6w6Yc/v-deo.html

Hi friend, try the following: Go to Settings > Search Engine > Toggle on "Show Search Suggestions"

So true. I use it for Research, Education, Business ❤ It is like a Jack of all trades and master of none. I love Edge a lot. With proper manual tweaking we can limit unnecessary data sharing. Lastly, I run Sophos Scan & Clean after my browsing to remove remaining trackers.

Glad you agree friend, truly the best browser out there right now!

Thanks for your support, very much appreciated

Absolutely. Glad to see you agree, thanks for your comment and support =)

I appreciate videos like this and privacy options should definitely be scrutinized. I use Signal, Threema, and Session but only a few people I know have migrated to Signal and no one has moved to the others. I've no dog in the fight beyond also wanting people to be protect their privacy more but also think we should be more realistic about others adopting such measures (more on that later). Session would be my default messaging app if anyone I knew used it. _Suspect money is "everywhere"_ Mozilla also has very iffy money ties but people use Firefox all the same, even as a private option. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft but people are still okay using it. If we're going to criticize dirty money then good luck finding any popular, privacy option that's "pure." Some folks make fun of Tuta for its lackluster appearance but they've done a lot of groundwork to own their own infrastructure and they're mostly email focused which I respect. A lot of other companies don't have that kind of focus/orientation for various reasons. Signal does provide transparency reports and is audited fairly often so there's that. Said reports also show that besides the phone number, which LE usually has already when they subpoena info, and that data shoes that they have zero content to bolster the phone number beyond times accounts are made and those timestamps are in UTC. So unless some secret leak comes out where Signal gave far more data then the assertion (not here) of it being a honeypot isn't corroborated very well. ~ 3:35 They address the server access (lack thereof) in a pretty detailed part as well on their blog entry about Enclaves (building faster oram). Their server info is also on GitHub. In short, the proof is in the pudding and until a substantive claim about it's lack of robustness both from LE requests and it's protocol which, even you admit is highly vetted and has been for years, then this is speculation. I posit the the emphasis on AI from Apple, Google, and even Microsoft is where the more obvious back door will be as such can pre-empt e2ee. They won't need to "crack" the likes of the Signal protocol with such pre-installed on regular phones that are capable of running a supporting GPU. Rob Braxman has been sounding the alarm about this for about a year, now, at least. _Less metadata is better, of course!_ On the other hand, less metadata such as phone numbers is great (full send with that goal) and I push people to use other apps than Signal such as Session for online contacts I don't know in real life. It's a tried and true tactic that LE use metadata (e.g. who you know, where you live, etc.) to gain contextual, info that they don't initially have. This is especially true for homicide investigations. Even if a hardened criminal lawyers up their family and friends will usually talk and provide plenty of investigative info. _Elephant in the room: Mass Adoption_ Think how much better privacy would be if half the population of a country switched from SMS/RCS to the likes of Session. You'd see a lot more pushes from government to crack down on the broadest definition of crime with folks who also used such communication methods. But we must also keep in mind that "normies" are usually resistant to change and when apps such as Session are less intuitive to use than let's say Signal or even Telegram, can increase that resistance to moving to options that are more private than Signal. Getting people into the door is something to factor in and people are used to giving out their phone numbers. Get them away from SMS/RCS into Signal then from there to the likes of Session, Threema, etc. for messaging apps. This is quite the ask but worth it, of course. For a non-messenger parallel, look at how Proton (with it's familiar, Google-like, suite options) is a more popular choice for email then Tuta despite the latter having better encryption for emails (by encrypting the subject line by default). Both have PQC, thankfully. _Performance consistency_ General consensus seems to be that while being more private, non-Signal options are lacking in terms of consistent service. _Longevity of newer, better options is necessarily unknown/untested_ Plus we don't know how the other options will hold up to LE scrutiny and service/scale expansion until they meet those difficulties. I've already seen an article pointing out how Simplex has been used by some alleged and actual ne'er-do-wells, and it has a much smaller user base than Signal. I hope the devs can stand up to increasing maligning by the media with their usual treatment but that remains to be seen. ~ 5:15 - 5:35 I agree but we need to meet people where they are about privacy rather than where we would prefer them to be: they think it's not worth it, difficult to do, think there aren't free/accessible, easy to use options, etc. Those of us who are more privacy oriented should be realistic about helping others take it more seriously and expect them to make small steps forward. Help them realize how much giving out their real phone number can reveal and help them do it less.

Thanks so much for your support Vinny and for taking the time to offer up some great tips, which I'll certainly look into doing right away!

Great point! But actually, although it is Chromium based it uses an open source variation meaning it's openly verifiable by the community as to whether it calls home to Google, which it doesn't. Check out this doc on their github which verifies this: github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove) So feel free to use Brave without any worries in that regard. Just be sure to use their own search engine so Google has no opportunity to phone home :)

Vivaldi is a a decent choice if you productivity features, and privacy. Wasn't covered here as I was only focusing on current major offerings. But I'll certainly cover it in an upcoming video with a more extensive list. Subscribe to keep an eye out for that If you're curious about my how I'd rank it :)

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