7 Easy Ways To Optimize Your Online Privacy

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  • @tobiaslarsen2302
    @tobiaslarsen2302 4 роки тому +506

    You have one of the clearest voice and pronunciation I've ever heard in UA-cam. Even as non-native-english subscriber its so relaxed and interresting to follow your content. Keep going and all the best

    • @GooogleGoglee
      @GooogleGoglee 4 роки тому +14

      Agree

    • @FlowerTrollSan
      @FlowerTrollSan 2 роки тому +6

      His voice is half the reason I watch his videos, lol! And of course he gives some really useful privacy tips. Sometimes he talks about some high-level technical stuff that I don't know that much about, but he's just pleasant to listen to, so I do. 😅

  • @jaibandroide
    @jaibandroide 4 роки тому +109

    Man, can you make a video explaining why it's bad to get spied on by google, facebook, etc.? I have a hard time explaining it to my friends, even getting mocked for not having alexa skipping songs for me.
    By the way, i love the way you speak, its very easy to understand :)

    • @ramansun786
      @ramansun786 3 роки тому +27

      Your and Others' Data(including Psychological, behavioral, amount of time you spend on a day, your interests, and many more they find necessary) can be sold to Cyber Mafias of China or Russia or to your own government, from which they will be able to Manipulate the Masses for their Desired Outcome.
      To be honest, its actually Extremely Dark to even Imagine of What they are Actually Doing from Collecting your DATA.

    • @princam_4775
      @princam_4775 3 роки тому +15

      Do you want China to have your data? (the answer is no)

    • @jaibandroide
      @jaibandroide 3 роки тому +37

      @@princam_4775 "i dont care" is the common answer

    • @princam_4775
      @princam_4775 3 роки тому +2

      @@jaibandroide I could understand that for some things, I mean I run WIndows as my daily, but I absolutely do not want China to have my data. Given that China murdered a bunch of peaceful protesters in Tiananmen, is currently committing genocide against Uighurs, and is all around the worst threat since Hitler, I don't think they need to know where I go every day

    • @princam_4775
      @princam_4775 3 роки тому +1

      @Ayjop Except doing basically anything is doing something bad in China. If China succeeds with their plans for world domination that data is going to cause problems for whoever gave it up.

  • @dachd
    @dachd 4 роки тому +19

    *NOTICE* - if you wont set up a PINcode, the Signal can give up your contact list to authorities. Set up that god damn pins! :D

  • @nemonada3501
    @nemonada3501 3 роки тому +10

    Your videos are awesome and push me to learn more about the workings of these systems. Much gratitude.

  • @sudoalex
    @sudoalex 2 роки тому +5

    Why am I so addicted to your videos?

  • @helenahe3495
    @helenahe3495 4 роки тому +7

    I personally use IRC with ZNC instead of Signal or stuff because hosting your own network is easier.

  • @plapbandit
    @plapbandit 4 роки тому +190

    _Laughs in _*_Intel Management Engine_*

    • @DOYLECLEVERLOBE1
      @DOYLECLEVERLOBE1 4 роки тому +4

      Oh just rain on everyone's parade. Of course it's not really a problem if you don't need remotely current hardware.

    • @EffToyz
      @EffToyz 4 роки тому +36

      **Booting up System76 laptop** What Intel Engine you say?

    • @deoxal7947
      @deoxal7947 4 роки тому +7

      @@EffToyz I kinda want to replace the IME firmware instead of disable it. Useful for breaking DRM.

    • @t3ch-1t89
      @t3ch-1t89 4 роки тому +10

      *Derps in custom removed intel me bios*

    • @sixdroid
      @sixdroid 4 роки тому +1

      works with linux too?

  • @BurgerKingNationalist
    @BurgerKingNationalist 4 роки тому +27

    to be honest the phone is the biggest vector of attack on privacy. Just moving to any de-googled android rom will cover a large amount of privacy. I have been using Lineage OS since I have an old ass phone and Graphene seems to only support newer Pixel phones.

    • @nonenothingnull
      @nonenothingnull 4 роки тому

      Embedded hardware is insecure, their protocols, too

  • @UnobtainableSilence
    @UnobtainableSilence 4 роки тому +19

    Right off the bat a big hell no to brave browser, firefox with noscript and Ublock Origin will always be the best clearnet browser.
    Android... Literally a data aggregation tool for google, Now we have the pine phones so we can start moving away from state google tech.
    Thanks for the video though, I still find value in your video and am glad more like yourself are doing something to teach folks about alternatives.

    • @JessicaFEREM
      @JessicaFEREM 4 роки тому +2

      if you care about privacy, use /e/ or lineage w microg or with nothing

    • @abasba00
      @abasba00 4 роки тому +1

      Pinephone and other 'linux' based phones are promising but still has much more work to do on both hardware and software side. Most SoC's still depend on properitary blobs -which are powerful ones- so devs and user base have to put more pressure on chip manufacturers which depends merely on using FOSS. IMO this is just a cat and mouse situation with dead end, last users not going to get any fully open sourced mobile OS. Neither G or Goverments can give up on such a easily reachable data harvesting tool.
      Pine or Librem phones are cool but seems like people are way too optimistic about them

    • @DOYLECLEVERLOBE1
      @DOYLECLEVERLOBE1 4 роки тому

      Actually uMatrix is better it gives you complete control and is made by same people that make Ublock Origin. Mozilla isn't exactly trustworthy either, one being Soros funded, and two they blocked the Dissenter extension from their web store.

    • @UnobtainableSilence
      @UnobtainableSilence 4 роки тому

      @@DOYLECLEVERLOBE1 I like Umatrix and as far as soros goes, who cares who donated money to them, firefox is open source so you can modify it however you want, there are no real alternative browsers that work as well and are as secure and private except tor and it's technically firefox.
      In the end every one has to choose for themselves.

    • @UnobtainableSilence
      @UnobtainableSilence 4 роки тому

      @@abasba00 Yes they have a long way to go but the fact you can now get a 150$ linux phone built for privacy and security is mindblowing, and now it's only a matter of time until they get good.

  • @vazkeft
    @vazkeft 2 роки тому +3

    CEO of good advice

  • @moeta486
    @moeta486 4 роки тому +18

    Linux Mint is unironically my favorite Linux distro. Its just works.™
    Kinda wish you would've recommended Arch/Void for the people who want to go crazy with the customization.

    • @isaacdiaz3221
      @isaacdiaz3221 4 роки тому +2

      What about Debian/Ubuntu/*buntu? Still pretty easy to install and use, is also highly customizable, and bloatless than Mint.

    • @superslimanoniem4712
      @superslimanoniem4712 3 роки тому +1

      @@isaacdiaz3221 mint is based on Ubuntu iirc

    • @catholic_zoomer_bro
      @catholic_zoomer_bro 3 роки тому +2

      If you're at a point where you can use Arch, you probably already know about Arch

    • @NatetheNintendofan
      @NatetheNintendofan 2 роки тому

      @@isaacdiaz3221 yeah I use pop OS I just upgraded today cuz I was tired of stupid windows Levin Force upgrading and I don't want to be four separate pretty easy actually just forced just uses tweet thing that letting me get minimize maximize back glad about that one yeah like the startup screen on my HP computer just of the HP logo and then Adele's like this little word in the corner and then says booting to pop OS and I found out about this thing called wine so that can help me

  • @leakthis7218
    @leakthis7218 4 роки тому +3

    finally some legitimacy I can stand behind

  • @damo_1083
    @damo_1083 4 роки тому +6

    Just what I was looking for.

  • @gaarajeffri1512
    @gaarajeffri1512 4 роки тому +5

    Thank you so much brother!

  • @Wooksley
    @Wooksley 4 роки тому +13

    I wonder if you could theoretically block tracking on a network level like you can do with ads. That would be neat.

    • @someonehere4380
      @someonehere4380 3 роки тому +3

      you could monitor it but you can't really stop it unless you have access to the source code

    • @superslimanoniem4712
      @superslimanoniem4712 3 роки тому +2

      @@someonehere4380 you could probably drop those packets, but that seems a bit difficult to do reliably and quickly.

    • @shamantha221b
      @shamantha221b 2 роки тому

      You can run a pi-hole ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @iskamag
      @iskamag 2 роки тому +1

      That's called a firewall my friend.

  • @EffToyz
    @EffToyz 4 роки тому +20

    SearX - you can find several good open instances if you don't want to host your own.
    StartPage was sold to some advertising company, I won't touch it with 12 feet pole. People are saying that Qwant and SwissCow are good privacy oriented search engines.
    I was fan of tuta and proton mail, but there are sticky rumours about proton being sponsored by NSA and both do vendor lock with custom email clients. Also claim that proton has encrypted server storage is just a claim.
    My beef with signal is that Moxy is so stubborn and doesn't want decentralisation and federation, this is beyond understanding. Also so far Signal uses your phone# as an ID, so using it you provide your phone book to third party. Yeah, I know, I know, your phone book been uploaded to shitbook and other companies over 9000 times already, yet doing this is a bit unethical. Wire, on the other hand, has open sourced server and client iirc and doesn't use your phone # as id, yet implements same protocol as Signal does. Good alternative is xmpp - lightweight, million different clients, privacy, etc.
    On android there is good Play Store replacement - Aurora store (available on f-droid), before install any app you can check how many trackers in each app (hint: way fucking too many!)

    • @cybro8925
      @cybro8925 3 роки тому +3

      Signal's the next step from WhatsApp, since your friends already know your phone number. Also they don't charge for shit unlike Wire

    • @superslimanoniem4712
      @superslimanoniem4712 3 роки тому +2

      @@cybro8925 waiting for WhatsApp to start charging a fee so I can get everyone switched over, you can't convince some people without the promise of saving money.

  • @shirinmokhtabady8535
    @shirinmokhtabady8535 2 роки тому +1

    I personally find totally online security in the ecosystem Utopia. Test it yourself.

  • @zyan983
    @zyan983 4 роки тому +4

    Privacy respecting stuff:
    CPU: SiFive RISC-V Custom CPU
    Desktop OS: Alpine, Arch, Gentoo, Fedora.
    Mobile OS: PostmarketOS
    Server / Container: Alpine Linux
    Custom Bios : Libreboot/Coreboot
    Browser - Firefox
    Search Engine - SearX / DuckDuckGo
    Email - ProtonMail
    Messager - Briar
    Proxy: Anonsurf
    DNS: Self Host it.
    Adblocking: PiHole

    • @t3ch-1t89
      @t3ch-1t89 4 роки тому +1

      Well I would have to fix a couple of things:
      Browser: Firefox with userhacks
      Email: SELFHOST
      DNS: Anything but cloudflare or google (SELFHOST reccomended)

    • @zyan983
      @zyan983 4 роки тому

      @@t3ch-1t89 Fair enough.

    • @zyan983
      @zyan983 4 роки тому

      @@t3ch-1t89 ProtonMail is fine. I'll change DNS to self host though

    • @t3ch-1t89
      @t3ch-1t89 4 роки тому

      @@zyan983 have a look in 4channel.org/g. Protonmail is kinda suspicious.

    • @superslimanoniem4712
      @superslimanoniem4712 3 роки тому

      @@useruser-ti1og is Manjaro any good for privacy? About to switch from wintrack and looking for a good os.

  • @burgerchild
    @burgerchild 4 роки тому +5

    Another banger

  • @benmeier9467
    @benmeier9467 4 роки тому +4

    Hey thanks for the useful advice. I was wondering what kind of video edditor do you use ?

    • @camwha5904
      @camwha5904 4 роки тому +1

      Olive is probably the most sane choice

    • @reksie7816
      @reksie7816 3 роки тому +2

      @@kadixfox chad

  • @MsHojat
    @MsHojat 4 роки тому +4

    Just a note that Microsoft's outlook/hotmail (or even Microsoft in general) does not sell user data to other companies. Windows 10 definitely has quite a bit of privacy invasion (and to a lesser extent some of the other Windows), but at least it's still stuff that always stays at Microsoft.
    Of course if the government asks for it Microsoft will hand over the data, but personally I don't consider that to be an issue unless someone was a prominent person or doing some crimes.
    I'm not suggesting it's great for privacy -at least to the privacy community standard- but people do seem to misunderstand them/it a bit.

    • @hexa3389
      @hexa3389 4 роки тому +2

      It's not as much about privacy for me as it is taking away power from microsoft.

  • @BrenoSilveira94
    @BrenoSilveira94 4 роки тому +8

    Searx > all
    ProtonMail = CIA/NSA
    Ultimate privacy setup= {coreboot | libreboot}+qubes+whonix

    • @BrenoSilveira94
      @BrenoSilveira94 4 роки тому +6

      @@JohnDoe-jk3vv Sorry, I can't. What I can do is give you some light, the rest is up to you:
      privacy-watchdog.io/protonmails-creation-with-cia-nsa/
      privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/
      ua-cam.com/video/8Ppl62Bl9RE/v-deo.html
      PS.: I had another video saved on my bookmarks, but youtube take it down. It had about 50 min of explanation on how suspect ProtonMail and ProtonVPN is.

    • @Disabled_fandom
      @Disabled_fandom 4 роки тому +3

      Yeah, never trust a mountain J..

    • @MarkHobbes
      @MarkHobbes 4 роки тому

      @@BrenoSilveira94 So, what mail alternative you consider as good?

    • @sixdroid
      @sixdroid 4 роки тому +1

      @@BrenoSilveira94 if they say youre secure is the contrary

    • @BrenoSilveira94
      @BrenoSilveira94 4 роки тому

      @@MarkHobbes Not a mail, but a culture. Change your email and email provider regularly, make a lot of emails, each one with different tasks. And abuse services like 10minutesmails.

  • @BuckingByte
    @BuckingByte 4 роки тому +6

    Incredibly helpful video! Thanks.. Just a question:
    What do you think of telegram as a messenger.. is it private? Would you recommend it?

    • @bob80808
      @bob80808 3 роки тому

      Same question!

  • @Chris_Tinacan
    @Chris_Tinacan 4 роки тому +4

    You mentioned video editing on GNU/Linux. What video editor do you use?

  • @drumpf4all
    @drumpf4all 4 роки тому

    Good piece.

  • @NtcPedroPeterNews
    @NtcPedroPeterNews 4 роки тому

    thank you so much!

  • @McOuroborosBurger
    @McOuroborosBurger 4 роки тому +3

    ungoogled chromium is my personal fav

  • @chiragwad
    @chiragwad 4 роки тому

    great video

  • @aaron6841
    @aaron6841 3 роки тому +1

    I like opera maybe not the most private but it's good and contains a good add blocker

  • @cole9822
    @cole9822 4 роки тому +1

    If you can get an invite riseup is also a good email service, I personally use it and love it! Riseup has a good reputation amongst activists and whistleblower as well from what i have heard!

    • @Disabled_fandom
      @Disabled_fandom 4 роки тому +1

      Nice try Soros

    • @cole9822
      @cole9822 4 роки тому

      @@Disabled_fandom lmao, google it, its a good email service.

    • @Disabled_fandom
      @Disabled_fandom 4 роки тому

      @@cole9822 "google it" 🤔 I know what it is, it is the reason I don't trust them.
      1. Never trust a webmail.
      2. It is not end-to-end encrypted.
      3. It is not client-encrypted.
      4. It is US based.
      without political and ideological reasons.

    • @cole9822
      @cole9822 4 роки тому

      @@Disabled_fandom what service do you recommend then

    • @cole9822
      @cole9822 4 роки тому

      @@Disabled_fandom also does it matter if i have my name in the email address, just first name I mean

  • @sixdroid
    @sixdroid 4 роки тому +1

    why they put occult or esoteric logos for example in tutanota etc?

  •  4 роки тому

    I like your video

  • @personyeet
    @personyeet 2 роки тому +4

    Ddg aged like milk

  • @doktorparadox1791
    @doktorparadox1791 4 роки тому +2

    What about hardware security? What about Lineage OS? Pure OS? Pop OS? Besides for now Graphene OS supports only Pixel phones. Lineage OS doesn't support most phones.

    • @nonenothingnull
      @nonenothingnull 4 роки тому +1

      Hardware security, requires an entire rework on how your hardware is designed.
      It's all for naught when IME and proprietary BIOS is still a barrier for anyone who doesn't develop both themselves

  • @awesomeguy2650
    @awesomeguy2650 2 роки тому +1

    im going to put linux on bochs/limbo pc emulator on android not on pc and thats only because it wont boot windows to the installer i keep getting a bsod

  • @jgregoryj1
    @jgregoryj1 4 роки тому +1

    I use a vpn, orbot and bromite along with duck duck go. I am also planning on flashing lineage os +microg soon . I ditched facebook, and use Session for messaging. If I'm missing anything, someone let me know.

    • @help7983
      @help7983 4 роки тому

      You could burn ur router

    • @emeraldmasta7752
      @emeraldmasta7752 3 роки тому

      I’ve heard lineage OS isn’t as secure. For both security and privacy, graphene OS

  • @doktorparadox1791
    @doktorparadox1791 4 роки тому +1

    Im not getting notifications of your videos.

  • @dziugas1959
    @dziugas1959 4 роки тому +2

    I guess, he never heard of Tor

    • @Visiomax
      @Visiomax 2 роки тому

      was wondering the same. Maybe he recommends Brave because TOR gets blocked by some services?

  • @dogewow8999
    @dogewow8999 4 роки тому

    Uhm Firefox with ESNI and DoH enabled? Ublock Origin by default blocks fingerprinting and container for Facebook is good.

  • @quenz.goosington
    @quenz.goosington 4 роки тому

    Briar is not currently available for desktop.

    • @nonenothingnull
      @nonenothingnull 4 роки тому

      >not currently
      Which would invite people to make it so.
      It requires an entire rework of the UI.
      And of course, data shredding. A few contacts, already half a gigabyte of space used for.

  • @marioschroers7318
    @marioschroers7318 4 роки тому +2

    Seconded, great video, as always. However, the only part of Android that is open source is really just the Linux kernel.

    • @nico1337
      @nico1337 4 роки тому +5

      I don't think so. There is AOSP (Android open source project) which all custom ROMs build upon.

    • @zyansheep
      @zyansheep 4 роки тому +3

      Android itself is open source, but it's kinda like Chromium in that Google has control over the project.

    • @yasserarguelles6117
      @yasserarguelles6117 4 роки тому

      @Dio Titus umm aight?

  • @mineclashtv9709
    @mineclashtv9709 4 роки тому +20

    Brave? Or just use firefox...

  • @kiwin111
    @kiwin111 3 роки тому

    any tips on how to avoid doxxing? like most people, i have a bunch of social websites i use, but for some I like to be more anonymous than others. i still want to be able to post identifying info on some of the websites that I use, and i want to be able to keep the same display for some of the websites. for example, i could have a youtube channel with my face on it, and i would want to be able to have that same display name from youtube for my steam account if i'm playing steam games with someone who i met on youtube.
    is the only solution to create separate internet personas?

    • @DaGamerDuk
      @DaGamerDuk 5 місяців тому

      Three letters, V.P.N.

  • @nabarunr3
    @nabarunr3 2 роки тому

    06:19 that is definitely an Indian's phone.

  • @uiopuiop3472
    @uiopuiop3472 3 роки тому

    is hipalopo mail secure

  • @justadude2494
    @justadude2494 4 роки тому

    Great video as always. Why not use telegram though?

    • @EffToyz
      @EffToyz 4 роки тому +1

      also telegram now officially unblocked by Russian censorship department (I know this is not correct name but I'm making smart ass fun here). This really glows in the darkness.

  • @Pipeartist937
    @Pipeartist937 2 роки тому +1

    For privacy, i think GNU icecat is probably the best one next to Tor. You shouldnt trust anything Chromium based…period. Open source Chromium still phones home to google. Ungoogled chromium is the only one i would consider. Icecat is always current with the lastest Firefox esr release but you have to build the browser from source. Im on Gentoo Linux so its not a problem as Icecat is readily available in an overlay. Despite what online reviews say, Firefox may be slower than other browsers are but the forks with telemetry removed/disabled are quite snappy, especially when compiled with pgo and lto optimizations. In my opinion, if you cant build it from source, you shouldnt install it. For me, propietary software such as steam gets installed in a chroot. You should not trust a propietary web browser period.

  • @MatusRKO
    @MatusRKO 4 роки тому

    What about vivaldi as a browser?

    • @jd-raymaker
      @jd-raymaker 4 роки тому +1

      it's not open source

    • @jd-raymaker
      @jd-raymaker 4 роки тому

      to be more spesific, it's based on open source projects. the rest is about trust like anything else

    • @sage5578
      @sage5578 4 роки тому

      Its fine browser, I use it personally. I would install ublock origin and privacy badger to harden the browser. Vivaldi is mixed open source and proprietary. Vivaldi does not sell your data to anyone from what I know.

  • @heterodoxagnostic8070
    @heterodoxagnostic8070 4 роки тому +3

    dissenter is better than brave when it comes to trust

    • @deoxal7947
      @deoxal7947 4 роки тому +1

      doubt
      Also I have no problem with Brave's promo code being added. After hearing about this I signed up for Binance with it.
      My problem with Brave is that it informs DDG I am using Brave via a parameter. It can be disabled but only on desktop.

    • @MarkHobbes
      @MarkHobbes 4 роки тому +1

      @@deoxal7947 What is DDG?

    • @heterodoxagnostic8070
      @heterodoxagnostic8070 4 роки тому +2

      @@MarkHobbes duck.com

  • @nanopone
    @nanopone 3 роки тому

    >popietor

  • @infotruther
    @infotruther 4 роки тому

    Are you aware that Ccleaner has come out with a browser? Check it out.

  • @ahuvagottdiener6605
    @ahuvagottdiener6605 7 місяців тому +2

    I'd like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as Gnu/linux Is actually called linux Or as i've been personally starting to call it linux With Gnu Seasoning

  • @ujjal147
    @ujjal147 4 роки тому

    searX is pronounced "səːks". Got this from their README.md.

    • @ujjal147
      @ujjal147 4 роки тому

      @Numbered just know that it's not pronounced how the @Mental Outlaw pronounced it in the video.

  • @christiansimbarashe
    @christiansimbarashe Рік тому

    You absolutely trashed on Proton in your later vids. Based in Switzerland means nothing if the entity is active cooperating with the feds from 14 eyes

    • @lucasduck95
      @lucasduck95 6 місяців тому

      proton does?

    • @薹
      @薹 2 місяці тому

      ​@@lucasduck95 Yes

  • @TheEzemikedirnt
    @TheEzemikedirnt 4 роки тому

    Firefox + Duckduckgo

  • @premier69
    @premier69 4 роки тому

    is chromium 100 % open source?

    • @Nozomi89AceGaymer
      @Nozomi89AceGaymer 4 роки тому +2

      From what I know actually no, for ungoogled Chromium, I don't know

  • @Anon-tr2lq
    @Anon-tr2lq 4 роки тому +2

    Brave might not be that great: ua-cam.com/video/7Y5MaxLa2ro/v-deo.html
    Just use Waterfox with a couple of privacy plugins. Watch two great privacy tutorials by The Hated One:
    1) ua-cam.com/video/lLessJ4R6w8/v-deo.html
    2) ua-cam.com/video/jxeeKKfjb5o/v-deo.html

    • @cybro8925
      @cybro8925 3 роки тому +2

      Waterfox was bought by System1, an ad company

  • @TROY-MCCLURE-1991
    @TROY-MCCLURE-1991 4 роки тому +1

    Anyone else use Firefox?

  • @NatetheNintendofan
    @NatetheNintendofan 2 роки тому +1

    Good I want my privacy respected I don't want them looking at my p*** searches and then I'm calling the FBI and send the FBI to my house

  • @TonCulte
    @TonCulte 4 роки тому

    1. dont use brave
    2. go to privacytools.io
    3.done

  • @yasserarguelles6117
    @yasserarguelles6117 4 роки тому +1

    Yea that's cool and all but privacy is lame, I would rather get spied on so I feel like someone actually cares what I'm doing...

  • @thefrey9588
    @thefrey9588 4 роки тому +6

    only seen the thumbnail yet, and wanted to say Brave Browser is garbage; switch to FF.

    • @egg5474
      @egg5474 4 роки тому

      @bronze Marketing.Is that crypto worth anything yet?

    • @egg5474
      @egg5474 4 роки тому

      wtf is that url

    • @mz-pd5hw
      @mz-pd5hw 4 роки тому +1

      @@scalawagmax I think that the "Firefox is slow" meme is quite outdated, to test webapps I have multiple browsers installed and Firefox is not noticeable slower than Chrome based browsers, and eats a lot less RAM than any Chrome based browser, also starts quicker than Brave and consume less CPU; right now I have Firefox with 43 tabs open (including gmail, around 7 YT tabs, Protonmail that eats a lot on itself, a couple of Amazon pages and a couple of ebay) and no "freezing", 3.9GB is no small footprint, but with the current 43 tabs in Chrome & friends it would be much much worse. And I have a bunch of addons running. Firefox being slow and as heavy as Chrome is just an old meme that people keeps repeating. Firefox is far from perfect, many changes of late doesn't make me happy and I'm constantly trying and hoping for a good browsers without luck su far, but Firefox is not as bad as people say and Chrome is far worse.

    • @mz-pd5hw
      @mz-pd5hw 4 роки тому

      @@scalawagmax precisely, was, SW change over time, I see a lot of people bashing Firefox today because how slow it was, past tense, I tell you, I use it NOW, and I also use Chromium, Chrome, Brave, st, and Midori. Now not a year ago, not months ago, now. And now Firefox is not noticeable slower than the rest, and certainly not as RAM hungry than Chrome-based ones.

    • @mz-pd5hw
      @mz-pd5hw 4 роки тому +1

      @@scalawagmax np, sadly, to me all browser sucks nowadays, the web is sadly increasingly bloated, but so far Firefox is the lesser evil XD. And if you combine it with RSS, youtube-dl, and other tools, you can leave the browser only for the few cases you can't divert the workflow somewhere else. I'm working on it :)

  • @spiralofhope
    @spiralofhope 2 роки тому +1

    duckduckgo is trash now

  • @voidmain2453
    @voidmain2453 4 роки тому +5

    As he suggested Brave browser I don't bother watching the rest. Epic fail

    • @copper4eva
      @copper4eva 4 роки тому +3

      He does state that they've done some sketchy stuff, for what it's worth.

    • @EffToyz
      @EffToyz 4 роки тому +2

      wow,, man, this is not the way. MO didn't say this is the only trusted browser. He just said that using brave improves your privacy level. If you are chromium user, installing Brave will be much better. Yet everyone knows that Brave was caught in some sketchy thing. Privacy is not like flipping a switch - and now you are golden. Every little step makes your privacy better.

  • @russellg81
    @russellg81 4 роки тому

    Clearly the person who did the down vote, is a windows or mac user.

  • @mattwaters9008
    @mattwaters9008 4 роки тому +2

    duck duckgo is garbage. Just look at the name of the owner. Those in the know already know what it will be.

    • @marioschroers7318
      @marioschroers7318 4 роки тому +2

      I was suspicious about its name as well, but ultimately decided to make the switch and frankly, I haven't looked back ever since. The occasions when I really need a search result from Google are little to none. I even use Duck as the default search engine on my Android phone these days.

    • @mattwaters9008
      @mattwaters9008 4 роки тому +1

      @@marioschroers7318 seems like startpage is much better but its also been around a long time so might be compromised by now. I wonder if anyone has made a browser/search engine that utilizes customizable proxy layers. Id like to see that as an open source project.

    • @mattwaters9008
      @mattwaters9008 4 роки тому

      anyone know of any open source tor-like projects? Tor is old and comprmised from the get go, theres gotta be at least some research papers on an uncomprimisable onion network

    • @marioschroers7318
      @marioschroers7318 4 роки тому

      @@dreamy97836 Indeed. I misread that. But how is that relevant?

    • @arunraman6630
      @arunraman6630 4 роки тому +1

      @@marioschroers7318 let's just say he belongs to a group that has a bad track record

  • @buffpikachu4991
    @buffpikachu4991 4 роки тому +2

    ff shills in the comments after mozilla dumps its staff :thinking:

    • @egg5474
      @egg5474 4 роки тому +2

      Go woke go broke bruh

  • @HulksterHogan
    @HulksterHogan 3 роки тому

    I'm curious as to why Searx is better for privacy. If it indexes other searches like Google doesn't that mean your search query is getting sent to Google and logged like usual anyway?

    • @Katy-fv2oz
      @Katy-fv2oz 2 роки тому +1

      It isn't linked to you it's anonymous, like they don't know which ip it comes from.

  • @LLPOF
    @LLPOF Рік тому

    After using Brave and Ungoogled Chromium for the last two years, I've switched to LibreFox.