@@mementomori29231 I'm not doing anything nefarious, I'm not fine with Gmail/Outlook. Proton is barely fine given lack of better alternative. It's about the principles of it, and partially about how the data is used. I'd much rather have no one spying on me, but there's a reason I don't use email except where strictly necessary.
Its a hobby for me. I actually dont care if my info gets leaked and such but it is a matter of principle and allows for some fun learning opportunities and projects
And also the acknowledgement that most people don't understand or even give a shit. Even if you explain why they should care, they don't, because the implications are so abstract. Like if people aren't being whipped or hung in the town square people just don't get it. Taking this fact into account, instead of dismissing those type of people as deserving of the reprocussions, is actually super important for the people that do care, in an equally abstract or indirect way. The wising tide lifts all boats.
@@StormWarningMom i did that for a while, and dropped out of it. I found people that were absolutely insane about it and it repulsed me out of it. Lmao.
@@bfrd9k Honestly, shit like that could happen in town square and they still wouldn't get it. That being said, there isn't a good alternative, so who cares if they know.
Not sure what his hang up with Gmail is. Google going to "spy" on my bank emails, Amazon shopping confirmations, credit card alerts, Hulu watchlists? Oh no...how scary. I have several proton mail accounts but my main email is still Gmail due to the variety of features and conveniences.
Masked emails (what fastmail calls them) is really a game changer. Handing out an individual randomly generated email to every single website that requires an email/sign in for some bullshit makes identifying who sold your email to spammers and cutting them off easy.
This is super true. I actually gave an alias to a small cottage industry creator who was making 3D printed stuff. Eventually that email found it's way onto an unexpected mailing list, instead of just assuming malice and blocking it like I would with a large corporation I actually reached out to the guy ... he was shocked to hear this and definitely hadn't sold my email address and he started digging into it himself. Turns out it was the provider he uses for handling invoices that actually harvested his client's emails and sold them off and he wasn't aware of this, it was only because I had a unique alias for his specific shop that we got to the bottom of it. So even when you trust the recipient it can still happen!
@@D1.y There is a simple solution for that, don't give a masked email for business. It's not an all or nothing situation. My primary email I give to family members and associates is simply my name at my custom domain and yes that email is compromised and on spam lists because it's on the open web. However, in the sea of spam every little bit helps. You use masked emails for privacy purposes. For situations where you rely on the recipient knowing you, you can always fall back to a standard email address. In the example I gave above I was a customer of theirs not a business associate which is why they got a masked email.
I've been in the trenches of the UA-cam algorithm for awhile and it is so refreshing to find a straight forward, slightly humorous, and actually well-informed take on anything these days. Thank you!
@@luderx You still have to trust that the email service is running an unmodified version of that OSS on their servers. Evil Corp could write and publish the most bulletproof privacy-friendly open-source mail server and have it professionally audited 100 times, and then just add an extra little patch that logs everything to the version they deploy to their customers.
@@gooifgeffpawkek If you use end-to-end encryption that you set up and maintain yourself, then the honesty of the service provider does not matter at all. Zero trust. Treat them as nothing more than a conduit, like the Internet itself.
I have known this man for 2 days but I trust his opinions with my life Also yes saying W like that is how we sometimes use it. You are down with the kids
This guy is answering my deepest concerns making me think I am basic and predictable. I have a subject in mind , if he makes a video about it next, I might start looking for spyware on my device
MAN I love this channel. I'm feeling the same way I did when I first discovered dankpods. Watching your first notes video was hilarious and instantly sucked me in. Can't wait to see where your channel goes, love it already!
This channel is a hidden gem. I never thought I'd get so invested in some guy's muses about commercial and non-commercial note-taking software. Video production is top-notch. Love what you're doing
Definitely have to agree, I don't do any secure anything over email, that's stupid. But I'd far prefer proton potentially scanning my email for ads than I do google definitely scanning my email for ads
Not to mention that google is using Gmail to train their A.I. and selling ur data that I know as a fact that every time when I buy stuff from Amazon. The UPS scammer send an email and I almost fell for it.
Buddy, you are what we need on UA-cam, very concise and very fast, and in a very good mood. Please come back! We need you. P.D. I already subscribed, you should too, maybe if we reach 50k he will come back.
Thanks for the great review. I'm the CEO and one of the founders of Skiff. We'll make sure that we get all of the issues fixed and have a lot of new features coming soon. Email rendering fixes are coming soon.
@@userktvahh yes the "scandal" wherin they only log the absolute BARE MINIMUM information to operate within the legal framework for whatever jurisdiction they choose to operate in(generally selecting devloped countries, with strong privacy and ethics laws) + some extra stuff a user can circumvent but is part of running a usable email service (like recovery services) and then don't give them away unless literally supena'd by a major government to give away the almost zero information you have on a french activist, who later gets caught due to their own bad operational security practices. I dunno what to tell you, but the information authorities got from protonmail is literally pittance, especially compared to what any other service would've logged, and the alternative is shutting down the entire company, screwing over hundreds of thousands of other people because of 1 random activist. Protonmail easily could've been the next lavabit.
Very nice video. Best way to explain to the common folk why you shouldn't trust mail services and should move away from email. Your video about notes is also a great explanation on open source software and different use cases. Keep it up!
Correct me if I am wrong: PGP is still no zero knowledge mail equivalent. If your mails are only encrypted end to end (sender to sender), this does not guarantee the encrypted email database of yours are safe from being browsed by your provider and therefore three letter agencies.
@@klauserwin9860if you are using a web mail service no. If both sender and recipient set up pgp in their mail client (like thunderbird) the mail provider can't read the email. But pgp comes with a lot of issues (mainly due to issues of email), like public key exchange.
@@klauserwin9860 you are wrong*, e2ee in email refers to sender to recipient, with the email services not being able to read any of the message content, because it's encrypted before being sent over the internet, it's received by the other email service in this encrypted format, and then finally decrypted on the recipient's device. *) the above is only correct if the user is in control of the keys, and those keys are not generated server-side. if you see a service advertising encryption but the server is generating the encryption keys, run.
You are correct that PGP in itself is no substitute for true zero knowledge, but there is no zero knowledge anyway unless you're taking incredibly annoying and expensive steps, as was outlined in the very beginning of this video. PGP does offer pretty good privacy as originally intended and named. It's easy, and it encrypts the contents of your mail. It's okay that people can see the headers still... because there's always going to be identifying data of sender and recipient, unless you host your own mail server, on a secure box, with a service you actually trust, using anonymous crypto as payment for the server and domain, and connect only using trustworthy VPNs.
I've enjoyed all three of the videos you've made so far, so much, I've watched them several times. I hope to see you release more content your brilliant.
As a boring normal Bob working from 9-5, the reason why I watch videos like this especially your whole library despite being basically illiterate in these fields, is because these are basically condensed and concentrated information with minimal fluffs given by an experienced person who had experienced the struggles in the field. There are nuggets and snippets of information with history examples that sparked my curiosity and that paves the way for my own tangents and gives me the first steps for my own searches. I would've never heard of these due to the way news are unfortunately being personalized and that creates echo chambers/wells/chasms.
Funny thing is that Edward Snowden exfiltrated the data using Lava Mail, I believe. The owner closed the service when he could no longer maintain user privacy after getting a subpoena for Snowden.
FYI you are absolutely correct about email servers being a hassle if you host yourself on a VPS. The issue I had was that when I bought my VPSes over the years, even from different providers, large email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, etc would all have large blocks of IP addresses blacklisted allegedly due to other VPS owners abusing services such as running massive spam mail platforms. I ended up submitting requests to have my specific IP address whitelisted, but only a couple smaller companies such as AOL responded (yes, somehow, people still had AOL mail as of 10 years ago). It was super annoying to deal with being blacklisted from sending mail. Likewise, I have had issues in the past where incoming mail was never received, or extremely delayed (30+ minutes).
As far as I know, Private Internet Access is still the only VPN provider proven to not keep records because they've been subpoenaed and raided multiple times without ever giving anything to authorities.
I used to use proton until I needed an email for job applications. If I wasn't raising an eyebrow in the wrong way with my weird alternative email address, my emails were getting caught by some internal firewall, and not going to the managers I was trying to talk to. Unfortunately, my number one priority for my email service is that I can send and receive every email.
@@keylanoslokj1806 Use a gray man persona. What's more suspicious? Bob who works 9-5 using gmail for work, family, and watching weird stuff or an informational black hole in 2023 where inter-connectivity is king? The trick is you blend in with the sheep while only sparingly using all anon methods at once for specific uses. *For legal reasons this is a joke. Crime is bad m'kay
Easy problem to fix. Register your own domain and then sign up for Proton's services that allows you to use custom domains. I've done this with my own domains when I moved from a long time e-mail hosting services over to Proton. When you send e-mails from Proton it will use the custom domains.
For notes I set up obsidian with a mega cloud that can be synced between whatever computer you are mega too. It's encrypted and you get the best note taking app without paying for their sync feature. It's great
The cloud option: Bitwarden for backed up and synced passwords across your devices The offline option: KeepassXC for selfhosted passwords (with browser integration)
A simple Google search would tell you that the number of emails sent and received per day in 2024 is *361.6 billion* You gotta have some serious dedication to read and filter those.
Here's my take: until we get rid of email and phone number authentication we will never ever reach true privacy. However if your threat model doesn't include the glowies you can get close enough.
if i had a requirement for privacy, i'd use the pgp key for my email address i published on all the keyservers years ago, i wouldnt rely on a third party to assure me they've definitely done my encryption. it's not rocket science. pgp definitely has a usability problem, but you're right that private mail providers aren't the answer to that. just wish you didn't dismiss pgp outright
@@gracelandtoo6240 My point is it should be, and "private email" services should be providing client side encryption using existing standards like PGP, or people using them should learn PGP. If I had a requirement for privacy, which I currently don't, I'd use a service that incorporated signing/encryption/signature checking into normal email workflows in the browser. Can't do anything about the metadata being in plain text but then you use a short email to tell people what E2E messaging app you're on.
The emails I proactively like are Protonmail, Skiff, Vivaldi Email, Tutanota and Mailfence in that order. Ideally all emails would support both the complete OpenPGP and OpenPGP XEP extensions excluding any depreciated or obsoleted RFCs and Secure MIME 4.0.
These videos make me feel validated. The way people obsess over such asinine details resulting in, like you said, designing the perfect waterproof t shirt to keep you dry in a rainstorm applies to so many "PoWeRuSeRs" it drives me crazy. And I know because I was one of those people and I had to dig through the giant mountain of shit to see the light on the other side
trying to get a secure email service is like trying to secure your house when none of your doors and windows have locks Email is inherently insecure, but we are stuck with it because for some unspeakable reason its become the standard for formal communication
It's decentralized, that's why. Much better than any proprietary stuff we avoided. There aren't even good encrypted open source messengers still, 40 years after email's introduction.
Don't wish upon the monkey's paw. I've noticed an increasing trend lately of websites ditching email and exclusively using phone numbers for account verification. Do you really want to live in a world where you need a phone number to make a user account?
My god, this is awesome! For the love of all that is holy, please make tons of videos about tons of subjects, do not limit yourself to notetaking. I must hear what you think about everything. Everything dammit!
I’d love to hear your take on photo storage/management apps. I desperately need to ditch google photos, but the search capabilities and automatic mobile backups are just so aluring
To recap:
1) Everyone is spying on you.
2) Some spies are kinder than other spies.
3) Email sucks, but we're kinda stuck with it.
If you're doing something nefarious, don't use email. The rest of us are fine with Gmail / Outlook / proton.
@@mementomori29231 I'm not doing anything nefarious, I'm not fine with Gmail/Outlook.
Proton is barely fine given lack of better alternative.
It's about the principles of it, and partially about how the data is used. I'd much rather have no one spying on me, but there's a reason I don't use email except where strictly necessary.
@@mementomori29231No, you're still absolutely shafted if you use Gmail.
Or any "free" (ad-funded) webmail for that matter.
@@mementomori29231 But now the world knows about these 1939 coins that he is interested in :D
@@mementomori29231 not everyone who needs to hide is doing something bad. all it takes is something your government doesn't like
My boi made 3 viral, great, well explained videos and disappeared in to abyss.
I still can't belive he made three bangers and then we never saw him again.
Like fu***ng the balls of steel on this guy to just disappear
EXACTLY
Like a true privacy enjoyer
I love the constant self-aware nods to the fact that we're all far too deep into this nonsense.
Note taking app watchers... you know who you are.
Lol
Its a hobby for me. I actually dont care if my info gets leaked and such but it is a matter of principle and allows for some fun learning opportunities and projects
And also the acknowledgement that most people don't understand or even give a shit. Even if you explain why they should care, they don't, because the implications are so abstract.
Like if people aren't being whipped or hung in the town square people just don't get it.
Taking this fact into account, instead of dismissing those type of people as deserving of the reprocussions, is actually super important for the people that do care, in an equally abstract or indirect way.
The wising tide lifts all boats.
@@StormWarningMom i did that for a while, and dropped out of it. I found people that were absolutely insane about it and it repulsed me out of it. Lmao.
@@bfrd9k Honestly, shit like that could happen in town square and they still wouldn't get it.
That being said, there isn't a good alternative, so who cares if they know.
The man doesn’t stop putting out bangers
never so true
Ikr
real
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Not sure what his hang up with Gmail is. Google going to "spy" on my bank emails, Amazon shopping confirmations, credit card alerts, Hulu watchlists? Oh no...how scary. I have several proton mail accounts but my main email is still Gmail due to the variety of features and conveniences.
this is by far my favorite open source note taking youtube channel
Masked emails (what fastmail calls them) is really a game changer. Handing out an individual randomly generated email to every single website that requires an email/sign in for some bullshit makes identifying who sold your email to spammers and cutting them off easy.
This is super true. I actually gave an alias to a small cottage industry creator who was making 3D printed stuff. Eventually that email found it's way onto an unexpected mailing list, instead of just assuming malice and blocking it like I would with a large corporation I actually reached out to the guy ... he was shocked to hear this and definitely hadn't sold my email address and he started digging into it himself. Turns out it was the provider he uses for handling invoices that actually harvested his client's emails and sold them off and he wasn't aware of this, it was only because I had a unique alias for his specific shop that we got to the bottom of it. So even when you trust the recipient it can still happen!
@@victor-lingbut isn't using masked mails bad for conducting business? what mail is on your business card?
@@D1.y There is a simple solution for that, don't give a masked email for business. It's not an all or nothing situation. My primary email I give to family members and associates is simply my name at my custom domain and yes that email is compromised and on spam lists because it's on the open web. However, in the sea of spam every little bit helps. You use masked emails for privacy purposes. For situations where you rely on the recipient knowing you, you can always fall back to a standard email address. In the example I gave above I was a customer of theirs not a business associate which is why they got a masked email.
@@D1.y yea true
@@victor-ling Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing it.
I've been in the trenches of the UA-cam algorithm for awhile and it is so refreshing to find a straight forward, slightly humorous, and actually well-informed take on anything these days. Thank you!
Watching this after Skiff upheaval. 💔
I gotta say, this is by far the best productivity/notes channel on UA-cam.
I am very glad UA-cam recommended this note-taking software channel
"our email service is totally encrypted! we can't access your data at all!"
source: trust me bro
its open source... just read the source
@@luderx You still have to trust that the email service is running an unmodified version of that OSS on their servers. Evil Corp could write and publish the most bulletproof privacy-friendly open-source mail server and have it professionally audited 100 times, and then just add an extra little patch that logs everything to the version they deploy to their customers.
@@gooifgeffpawkek microsoft vscode momento
@@gooifgeffpawkek If you use end-to-end encryption that you set up and maintain yourself, then the honesty of the service provider does not matter at all.
Zero trust. Treat them as nothing more than a conduit, like the Internet itself.
I have known this man for 2 days but I trust his opinions with my life
Also yes saying W like that is how we sometimes use it. You are down with the kids
You should see his opinions in the video game collecting world. Dude is a LEGEND.
Oh? Where?
@@nickv2601
Trust No one
@@nickv2601 Where are those?
@@nickv2601what’s his other channels?
Is he alive? How does one produce 3 bangers back-to-back, and just vanish into the abyss.
I love your notes videos for the record but I'll happily hear you complain about emails for 25 minutes
What are you talking about this is also a notes video
emails are merely notes shared with others :)
man dropped 3 bangers and said it was enough
This guy is answering my deepest concerns making me think I am basic and predictable.
I have a subject in mind , if he makes a video about it next, I might start looking for spyware on my device
i love proton. Mail was great by itself, but with the continous growing portfolio it just gets better.
Same here. Worth it during black Friday specials.
Thanks for acknowledging PGP, backhanded as it was. Respect that.
one of the best notes videos you have made so far
This is the best non-existent youtube channel that doesn't exist.
I hate how not many people care about privacy among the people i know, and in general. It's nice to find a channel like this one.
Because normal people don't know what it means and how bad the consequences are
Is Proton overall better than Skiff and Outlook?
@@derbylied9553 it's night and day. email isn't really good if you want to keep things private, but it's soooo much better than those.
WHY ONLY 3 VIDEOS??? This dude is creating some of the most engaging content on UA-cam!
MAN I love this channel. I'm feeling the same way I did when I first discovered dankpods. Watching your first notes video was hilarious and instantly sucked me in. Can't wait to see where your channel goes, love it already!
what are those
This channel is a hidden gem. I never thought I'd get so invested in some guy's muses about commercial and non-commercial note-taking software.
Video production is top-notch. Love what you're doing
Definitely have to agree, I don't do any secure anything over email, that's stupid. But I'd far prefer proton potentially scanning my email for ads than I do google definitely scanning my email for ads
I suppose
Not to mention that google is using Gmail to train their A.I. and selling ur data that I know as a fact that every time when I buy stuff from Amazon. The UPS scammer send an email and I almost fell for it.
Buddy, you are what we need on UA-cam, very concise and very fast, and in a very good mood. Please come back! We need you. P.D. I already subscribed, you should too, maybe if we reach 50k he will come back.
i swear i just think about emails a few hours ago and now you're making a video of it. thank you, the best note-taking channel 👍
Thanks for the great review. I'm the CEO and one of the founders of Skiff. We'll make sure that we get all of the issues fixed and have a lot of new features coming soon. Email rendering fixes are coming soon.
oh shit he fr
@@johnpisser1983yes your r34 isnt safe
@brodopefamNo I will
@@johnpisser1983My bad bri
welp... this comment aged like fine milk
You are quickly growing into my favorite channel. You must not stop. Embrace the pigeon holding.
First video I've seen of yours. Very good info & also just fun. Really nice job!
I'm so glad the note taking video wasn't a one off. Instantly one of my favorite channels
You have the best take for this subject that I've seen on the *internet*, let alone on UA-cam.
Did you forget the proton scandal?
@@userktvahh yes the "scandal" wherin they only log the absolute BARE MINIMUM information to operate within the legal framework for whatever jurisdiction they choose to operate in(generally selecting devloped countries, with strong privacy and ethics laws) + some extra stuff a user can circumvent but is part of running a usable email service (like recovery services) and then don't give them away unless literally supena'd by a major government to give away the almost zero information you have on a french activist, who later gets caught due to their own bad operational security practices. I dunno what to tell you, but the information authorities got from protonmail is literally pittance, especially compared to what any other service would've logged, and the alternative is shutting down the entire company, screwing over hundreds of thousands of other people because of 1 random activist. Protonmail easily could've been the next lavabit.
@@userktvDid you watch the video?
@@Kokurorokuko fuck proton get tutanota
Very nice video. Best way to explain to the common folk why you shouldn't trust mail services and should move away from email.
Your video about notes is also a great explanation on open source software and different use cases. Keep it up!
Bro please keeps making more videos. I like your style, your frustration and even screaming.
Been a proton visionary subscriber for about 3-4 yrs and by all means its not cheap but the peace of mind and ease of use it gave me its worth it
Wherever you went to default man, I hope you're enjoying taking your notes. Seriously hope you're alive and well.
where did he go?
He'll be back when he finds inspiration (I hope)
Ehh, Its been 2 months And he hasnt been back at it.
Man drops 3 bangers in a month then dissapears. Gigachad.
That email isn't moving towards PGP by default, is because the biggest email providers want to read your emails
Correct me if I am wrong: PGP is still no zero knowledge mail equivalent. If your mails are only encrypted end to end (sender to sender), this does not guarantee the encrypted email database of yours are safe from being browsed by your provider and therefore three letter agencies.
@@klauserwin9860 pgp can be at rest depending on your implementation, don’t use built in encryption services by mail providers.
@@klauserwin9860if you are using a web mail service no. If both sender and recipient set up pgp in their mail client (like thunderbird) the mail provider can't read the email.
But pgp comes with a lot of issues (mainly due to issues of email), like public key exchange.
@@klauserwin9860 you are wrong*, e2ee in email refers to sender to recipient, with the email services not being able to read any of the message content, because it's encrypted before being sent over the internet, it's received by the other email service in this encrypted format, and then finally decrypted on the recipient's device.
*) the above is only correct if the user is in control of the keys, and those keys are not generated server-side. if you see a service advertising encryption but the server is generating the encryption keys, run.
You are correct that PGP in itself is no substitute for true zero knowledge, but there is no zero knowledge anyway unless you're taking incredibly annoying and expensive steps, as was outlined in the very beginning of this video. PGP does offer pretty good privacy as originally intended and named. It's easy, and it encrypts the contents of your mail. It's okay that people can see the headers still... because there's always going to be identifying data of sender and recipient, unless you host your own mail server, on a secure box, with a service you actually trust, using anonymous crypto as payment for the server and domain, and connect only using trustworthy VPNs.
Your point about the inherent limitations of email privacy is so important-sometimes we forget that no service is 100% secure.
Skiff suite is shutting down in 6 months after recently joining Notion. Sorry to anyone who actively uses it.
I've enjoyed all three of the videos you've made so far, so much, I've watched them several times. I hope to see you release more content your brilliant.
Love your video style :) Feels really down-to-earth and to the point
Fantastic video. It's crazy that you've come out of the gate with 3 bangers in a row.
Badass take, always. Great content!
Just watched the first 3 minutes of this video and never heard of you before and I can already tell you, YOU ARE GREAT, mate! Keep it up!
Dude I need you to keep cranking out content this is amazing
I was JUST about to spend a day of my life researching email, specifically Skiff v Proton. Thanks for this video!
As a boring normal Bob working from 9-5, the reason why I watch videos like this especially your whole library despite being basically illiterate in these fields, is because these are basically condensed and concentrated information with minimal fluffs given by an experienced person who had experienced the struggles in the field. There are nuggets and snippets of information with history examples that sparked my curiosity and that paves the way for my own tangents and gives me the first steps for my own searches. I would've never heard of these due to the way news are unfortunately being personalized and that creates echo chambers/wells/chasms.
god, I love your channel, never stop posting, please.
Bro made 3 banger videos and disappeared. Crazy.
I need more by default!!! Binged all your videos too many times now
Funny thing is that Edward Snowden exfiltrated the data using Lava Mail, I believe. The owner closed the service when he could no longer maintain user privacy after getting a subpoena for Snowden.
Let's not forget even Snowden's probably a psyop
@@gabrielgian6207 how
@@phr3ui559 just look at the people around him, and how the Feds are desperate for someone to promote Tor usage
I truly appreciate a no BS blunt video about email privacy and how things work. Thank You, By Default! :)
Soo here in late 2024.. Skiff is no longer (really) a thing as it got bought out by another company.
Hey man, keep the channel going. I appreciate your videos!
FYI you are absolutely correct about email servers being a hassle if you host yourself on a VPS. The issue I had was that when I bought my VPSes over the years, even from different providers, large email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, etc would all have large blocks of IP addresses blacklisted allegedly due to other VPS owners abusing services such as running massive spam mail platforms. I ended up submitting requests to have my specific IP address whitelisted, but only a couple smaller companies such as AOL responded (yes, somehow, people still had AOL mail as of 10 years ago). It was super annoying to deal with being blacklisted from sending mail. Likewise, I have had issues in the past where incoming mail was never received, or extremely delayed (30+ minutes).
Bro’s mixing banger videos with cruelty squad references. You love to see it.
Patiently waiting for your next video ... 🙂
As far as I know, Private Internet Access is still the only VPN provider proven to not keep records because they've been subpoenaed and raided multiple times without ever giving anything to authorities.
Mullvad too
This was superb. Now please, *pretty please* do a deep dive on VPNs.
this channel is just incredible
this man can't stop delivering quality content. Keep it up!!
Please make more videos.... we will pay, and we love the OpenSource productivity reviews!
We need this kind of internet activists. You are a true advocate for transparency.
I can't be the only person who saw that Tutanota icon and thought it was State Farm Drive Safe and Save
Yep, never put anything in an email that you wouldn't feel comfortable putting on a postcard. Nothing has changed that way.
this is exactly what I need right now. great breakdown. super informative and entertaining, thank you
Please make more videos. Your content is awesome
This is a really comprehensive and entertaining video! Also according to my studies your usage of the slang "W" is completely correct.
I used to use proton until I needed an email for job applications. If I wasn't raising an eyebrow in the wrong way with my weird alternative email address, my emails were getting caught by some internal firewall, and not going to the managers I was trying to talk to.
Unfortunately, my number one priority for my email service is that I can send and receive every email.
Yep, sadly some institutions block Proton - my guess is they're afraid of -untraceable- hard-to-trace bomb threat emails.
So what's the solution if you don't want to surrender to gmails and stuff?
@@keylanoslokj1806 Use a gray man persona. What's more suspicious? Bob who works 9-5 using gmail for work, family, and watching weird stuff or an informational black hole in 2023 where inter-connectivity is king? The trick is you blend in with the sheep while only sparingly using all anon methods at once for specific uses.
*For legal reasons this is a joke. Crime is bad m'kay
Gmail still then?
Easy problem to fix. Register your own domain and then sign up for Proton's services that allows you to use custom domains. I've done this with my own domains when I moved from a long time e-mail hosting services over to Proton. When you send e-mails from Proton it will use the custom domains.
now that skiff is gone, this aged like fine milk.
... I use pgp
Cap
same
Same - with private key material stored on Yubikeys
🤓
Im really happy to have caught this channel early on ^^ I hope you keep producing those videos for a long time! All the best!
For notes I set up obsidian with a mega cloud that can be synced between whatever computer you are mega too. It's encrypted and you get the best note taking app without paying for their sync feature. It's great
Protonmail have remained reigning supreme and survived while Skiff was sold out too easily by the creator over to Notion and got cancelled early.
RIP Skiff
Wtf
3 banger starting videos, this man is getting too powerful
Would love to see a video about password managers next time!
Bitwarden is the best easy, non- infinite-rabbit-hole-masochism option.
@@0FFICERPROBLEM I know, and I use it. But would still watch a rant about just for entertainment purposes lol
The cloud option: Bitwarden for backed up and synced passwords across your devices
The offline option: KeepassXC for selfhosted passwords (with browser integration)
I have no idea why but I'm absolutely in love with this channel and its content.
You are rapidly becoming my favourite youtuber. Keep it going. That said, I am a filthy obsidian user, and I like it.
Agree. The software rants are priceless
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How could this only be your 3rd video? I happen to have seen them all after all.
Amazing videos, great job!
A simple Google search would tell you that the number of emails sent and received per day in 2024 is *361.6 billion*
You gotta have some serious dedication to read and filter those.
Magnificent. Also, you sound just a little bit like Ozzy Man Reviews and I love it! This is superb content right here. MORE PLEASE!
Here's my take: until we get rid of email and phone number authentication we will never ever reach true privacy.
However if your threat model doesn't include the glowies you can get close enough.
and faces (or cctv in our streets)
Nor does it include the many surveillance cameras, recording devices, etc.
Another important update: The top of the current Skiff homepage says: "We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion."
if i had a requirement for privacy, i'd use the pgp key for my email address i published on all the keyservers years ago, i wouldnt rely on a third party to assure me they've definitely done my encryption. it's not rocket science. pgp definitely has a usability problem, but you're right that private mail providers aren't the answer to that. just wish you didn't dismiss pgp outright
They dismissed it outright because setting it up isn't an option for most people watching this
@@gracelandtoo6240 My point is it should be, and "private email" services should be providing client side encryption using existing standards like PGP, or people using them should learn PGP. If I had a requirement for privacy, which I currently don't, I'd use a service that incorporated signing/encryption/signature checking into normal email workflows in the browser. Can't do anything about the metadata being in plain text but then you use a short email to tell people what E2E messaging app you're on.
I don't know how long it took to make this video.. but dude... thanks for punching a smile into my face. Esp those tuta bros made my day 😆👍
The emails I proactively like are Protonmail, Skiff, Vivaldi Email, Tutanota and Mailfence in that order. Ideally all emails would support both the complete OpenPGP and OpenPGP XEP extensions excluding any depreciated or obsoleted RFCs and Secure MIME 4.0.
If our boi returns, may I see what he thinks about Thunderbird 🙏🐦
So far from your 3 videos we have gone through a similar digital journey and conclusion. I wonder how many more of us there are out there
Love the vids my guy! I hope to see more vids from you eventually
These videos make me feel validated. The way people obsess over such asinine details resulting in, like you said, designing the perfect waterproof t shirt to keep you dry in a rainstorm applies to so many "PoWeRuSeRs" it drives me crazy. And I know because I was one of those people and I had to dig through the giant mountain of shit to see the light on the other side
Absolutely my new favorite channel hands down
trying to get a secure email service is like trying to secure your house when none of your doors and windows have locks
Email is inherently insecure, but we are stuck with it because for some unspeakable reason its become the standard for formal communication
It's decentralized, that's why. Much better than any proprietary stuff we avoided. There aren't even good encrypted open source messengers still, 40 years after email's introduction.
@@retrocomputingthere's session
@@retrocomputing Depends on your definitions I guess. I use Matrix which I find pretty decent.
@@digitalspecter fast/reliable/perfect client?
Don't wish upon the monkey's paw. I've noticed an increasing trend lately of websites ditching email and exclusively using phone numbers for account verification.
Do you really want to live in a world where you need a phone number to make a user account?
My god, this is awesome! For the love of all that is holy, please make tons of videos about tons of subjects, do not limit yourself to notetaking. I must hear what you think about everything. Everything dammit!
I’d love to hear your take on photo storage/management apps. I desperately need to ditch google photos, but the search capabilities and automatic mobile backups are just so aluring
Fr, I've been searching for a replacement for ages, and it's very difficult to find anything that isn't self-hosted and doesn't suck :/
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This is awesome. Email is a dogshit protocol built on dogshit technology that we're all stuck with. It's the printer of communication
I love your channel
Dude, you are my favorite new channel. Waiting for you to blow up. Best wishes