@@Spiderfffun I'm fully fine with enabling some telemetry on Plasma purely on principal because they respected me enough to ask and not make it the default.
Night and day privacy difference compared to Windows. My Windows 11 laptop fans go turbo mode as soon as I plug in the power cable. When I check task manager, Windows is using around 4 GB of RAM and CPU usage spikes to 30-50% on some random Windows processes when idling. Complete bloatware. No wonder they allow people to upgrade for free because you are the product.
I'm glad you countered the misconception that Ubuntu is spyware, even for Linux standards. I'm using Ubuntu on the daily and it's great but I keep feeling like I'm an idiot for using it because of people who don't use Ubuntu but other distros keep saying it's the worst distro.
Don't ever consider yourself an idiot because you are using x or y linux distro. At least you are using Linux and not Windows, be glad with yourself about that !
The distro that works for you is the best distro. ...unless that is a government-made distro like redstar os, Astra, Pardus, or Deepin. Then you should be concerned.
Ubuntu haters are funny. You'll be on platforms like UA-cam or Reddit that are proprietary and harvest your data heavily, but then they call Ubuntu spyware or complain about snap's proprietary server, despite the fact everything else is open. I actually think there's a fair amount of things that you can criticize Ubuntu and Canonical for, but for some reason people focus on things that are not true or misleading.
7:18 Ubuntu does store your bash history, but bash only saves the history to that file once you close the terminal. Ubuntu does also have some telemetry related to snap that I don't think gets disabled by the global telemetry option. As someone who has an app on the Snap Store, I am able to see aggregate stats including: total weekly users, number of users per country, number of users per distro, number of users using a specific version of the app, and number of users per channel (whether they're getting stable or beta versions).
@@mattvisaggio It's not shared with the developer directly. It's sent to Canonical, who then aggregates the data, then the aggregated data is sent to the developer. I'm not exactly sure how it measures the weekly active users.
@@that_leaflet sharing app launches is problematic to me. I don't like that and didn't realize. I'll have to figure out how to block that at the DNS level. Thanks for sharing.
@@mattvisaggio It's not sending a ping to Canonical every time you open an app. Based on what I've read, telemetry is only sent to Canonical when snap refreshes. If you don't trust Canonical to anonymize basic telemetry, then you really shouldn't trust the OS. Besides, you're using UA-cam right now that is mining your data. Apps themselves, especially proprietary apps, are already sending pings to their servers whenever you open them, and they are not trying to preserve your privacy like Canonical is.
@@that_leaflet fair enough. When I open an app depending on a network to function, I expect communication to happen. When I open the libre office snap for example, I don't expect there to be app opens tracked. I think that's an important distinction to make. Aggregating snap app opens to send at refresh should not be bundled into collection in my opinion if the user has opted out of telemetry.
Now I wonder if Floorp, another fork of Firefox such as Librewolf, would also act ilke Librewolf in the sense of it not sending any data or more like Firefox with it sending some data.
@starilake2 Yeah, I read through a lot of the documenting of Floorp and the various patches it uses, and it says it uses Librewolf patches too, if I remember correctly.
The problem I've seen with ubuntu is their walled garden of snapd, the linux mint guy even as soon as 4 years ago said how the chrome package is empty and it opens a backdoor to snapd without your consent which is shady as hell.
99% of cases literally nothing, and if account status like premium isnt stored in cookies they will just combolist your accounts -> login into all of them and never touch again
I love how a slider bar and a switch makes people actually believe that they're Anonymous and not being tracked entirely false sense of privacy is what it is lol
@@NotYours-bp5fxI always encourage people to NOT trust what they are told, which is why I verified no network traffic for myself with a VM and telemetry/auto updates disabled. I encourage you to do the same.
I'm fairly certain the bash history file only gets written after closing a shell session and is enabled by default from upstream, so if that terminal window was the first bash prompt in that environment, that would explain why the file isn't present.
@@apache937 If you have a reason to not want it storing history, you should be able to set the HISTFILE environment variable to point at /dev/null. I haven't tried that myself, but I see no reason it wouldn't work
As long as you aren't using RedStar OS, just about any open source distro that has good reviews and wasn't developed by some nationstate SHOULD be fine. That being said, check your checksums and monitor network traffic using a VM from another OS (to ensure that traffic isn't being obfuscated by the same OS) you should be safe. I say that because I assume that OSX or Windows will not bother to hide any possible tracking that a Linux OS is doing in a VM. Ultra paranoid approach? Yes. Unnecessary? Yes. Will this work? Maybe. I know this is a super paranoid take, but if data privacy is your #1 concern, why risk it? Nothing is perfectly secure, if it was then updating software would be obselete. Stay safe guys, and thanks for reading my schizo rant 😂
I randomly found your channel but now for past five videos you post i have seen to gravitate to your videos because your videos are very informative. Keep it up
I wonder if anything shows up when you open the snap store (the included application store) or the moment when you install something from the snap store
Ubuntu has more critics because people don't like change and they compare it to Windows. There are a lot of privacy complaints about Windows but people will continue to use it.
@@ChrisWijtmans Mozilla has made some poor decisions such as Google being the default search engine which defeats the whole purpose of having a privacy centered browser.
I imagine there's at least one manager at Canonical that still has PTSD from that PR debakle with sending data to Amazon, and that insists on testing the default config for that every release.
I use Ubuntu and haven't seen any weird packets whenever I do probings like this. I have only used desktop versions since 18.04 and have the GUI store nuked though. The things I'd complain about are that Ubuntu has firewall off by default, requires extra steps to set up SELinux and has a few default settings (e.g. ssh agent) enabled that render it much less secure. Other than that, its compatibility is really good and it installs/runs smoothly on wild hardware.
You can disable what you wish on windows, it won't help, built into the os snoops . . . PS 24.04 is a pre release like windows it self checks its progress through you for updates, discontinued as lts is released. Firefox sends what videos you watch as required by law. What do you think of Windows (king of the spyware?)
Tentei instalar o Mint baseado em Ubuntu e Debian (nova versão). Nunca tive problemas com máquinas anteriores, mas dessa vez tive e por dois motivos: kernel e falta de suporte para o driver Everest Audio. Estava impossível continuar, e com muita dor no coração voltei para o Windows.
The way to disable it in firefox is simple. Search privacy inside options and remove studies. Now the question would rather be, what are they sending after you disable that?
You can no longer rely on the fact that an option is shown as deactivated, meaning that data will not be transmitted. We lost that trust a long time ago, regardless of the software.
Why? People would have already reported any nefarious activity going on and the Linux community would have gone into meltdown. Just look what happened with "LinuxFX".
@@apache937 at least it's optional unlike a certain company _cough_ windows _cough_. Ubuntu pro enables rebootless kernel security patches and a couple more features aimed more at the people who need the max uptime; like a NAS or whatever is needed.
Oh lord... I remember the Amazon web search thing. They told you right up front and you didn't have to use it. I hate(d) Unity so I didn't install Ubuntu anyway.
More proprietory = your drivers doesn't suck. I don't see how this is a bad thing, show me one opensource driver as frequently updated and as full as features as a proprietory one. Same goes for codecs.
Yeeahh! I tried a fresh install of 2 Mint versions. Ubuntu and Debian based. Bro, how I regreted it. My motherboard is one of newer versions. No way kernel recognized audio driver.
I am decreasing my chances of being spied on by even possibly ditching social media question for people is Garuda Linux safe they claim to be aimed at privacy as well to be a "gaming" distro which is good because I am done with Windows End of Life policy and the you don't own it policy. So I decided to say screw it and joined the Garuda distro I am limiting my access online because how corrupt everything is becoming if we were in a Bruce Willis movie we might as well be in the movie Red right now where uncle Same knows what you're doing regardless don't think I haven't thought about disconnecting from the grid all together and disappearing from all of it due to corruption.
9:00 ~ I would be fairly confident of the standard gnome version. I am somewhat sceptical and cautious about Canonical, because history, and because they're in very tight with micro$oft. You get a choice at install to include or not include Active Directory. I would be a bit more concerned about Ubuntu Kylin. I have heard some stuff about what they add with their native Chinese language desktop. I don't blame Canonical, I don't even blame the Chinese devs, I blame the Chinese government. If I understand right, the idea is that Ubuntu Kylin is used quite widely in official Chinese government and education and such, and they requested an ability to track their workers. All that is opt-in by default. It's not meant to spy on people out in the wider world. At least that's what they say, but then they would say something like that, wouldn't they? Kylin is a lot more like Windows, in terms of what it reports, including the scope and scale and detail of its reports. Having said that, my largest source for this, also repeatedly says things about Mint that are misleading or simply false. If you want a more 'recent' and up to date kernel in Mint, it's very easy to install one. They do tend to hang onto lower version numbers for a while, but they're quite recent revisions of those 'old' kernels. Things that have been patched since version 5.x.x, those patches do get back-ported to the Mint standard kernel. If I go uname -a now, I get ~$ uname -a Linux main 6.5.0-41-generic #41~22.04.2-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Jun 3 11:32:55 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ------- June 3rd that was compiled. Note that I'm posting this on June 9. That kernel was compiled 6 days ago. That's not an ancient creeky bug-fest waiting to expose your privates on the dark web. Maybe it doesn't have the high version number you like from Arch, but that doesn't make it an Old Kernel.
There is something suspicious about ubuntu, so many vulnerable packages such as openssh-client are dependencies for gnome-control-center etc. Now if you remove openssh-client, the whole system stops working as they have openssh-client as a dependency. Ive also noticed this with the bluetooth drivers, gnome-remote-desktop, cups, saned, snapd etc. It seems to me the developers intentionally planted backdoors to the system and did it such a way that if u remove the backdoorable processes the entire system stops working.
Question for anyone who still says it's spyware after watching the video: what can I do to check that. We've literally seen the contents of the requests Ubuntu sends. Of course, I'll replicate this for myself, to be sure, but if you think it's spyware, what else can I do to prove that it is (or any other distro, for that matter)? Where else could they be hiding the telemetry? If anyithing collects data, it still has to send it somehow, so it should show up in the requests, am I wrong? I'm genuinely just curious, because I'm about to switch to Linux, and I'd like to investigate my potential chosen distros for myself.
i love your channel but youtube seems to be relentlessley unsubing from your channel to the point where i have to resub everytime i watch one of your videos even if i subbed while watching the previous video i have to re sub
There was one little thing, and its totally optional. Everyone in the "free software extremist" community shat themselves when it came out and felt personally betrayed (thats the impression I got from their article, as dumb as that is). Its literally a non-issue, just gatekeeper nonsense. Just like ppl that gatekeep music, when they should just he happy that people are moving towards the right direction. For someone to leave Windows for Ubuntu, these idiots should be pleased with that.
this being done on windows vs any linux distro is such a stark contrast LOOL.. people you NEED to GTFO windows lol.. every windows video like this I seen it starts sending your data off the rip lol. way more then what Firefox and the ubuntu stuff did lol
8:51 "Ubuntu (modern versions of it) do respect user privacy", but it does have optional telemetry that collects a bit of hardware information. And while Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu, it doesn't collect any user telemetry.
Is Archlinux spyware?
Archlinux: "I am whatever you want me to be bby"
technically if you install kde plasma and enable the setting yourself it becomes spyware, but it doesnt come like that by default
@@Spiderfffunkde plasma on arch is the most based (it’s what I use)
arch ftw
also you can say "Im using Arch btw"
@@Spiderfffun I'm fully fine with enabling some telemetry on Plasma purely on principal because they respected me enough to ask and not make it the default.
Thank the Lord I am safe on TempleOS. Only God may see my data.
Lmfao
I'm fat and bold! Is there a BoedhaOS?
cia n
Dual boot TempleOS and Arch Linux. TempleOS for everyday use, and Arch when even God shouldn't be privy to what I am doing.
lmao xD
8:53 is what you want.
Thanks for saving my time
ty
Saved my time 🎉
Thanx!
When the length of a video is determined by UA-cam’s ad policies, these comments are what we need. Thank you.
Answer: No
R u blind or fanboy?
Thanks, that's I wanted to hear, now I can leave 😂
Thankyou
Answer: before 16.04 LTS Yes (Amazon spyware). Took way to long for ubuntu to see that as a privacy issue.
answer yes
Night and day privacy difference compared to Windows.
My Windows 11 laptop fans go turbo mode as soon as I plug in the power cable. When I check task manager, Windows is using around 4 GB of RAM and CPU usage spikes to 30-50% on some random Windows processes when idling.
Complete bloatware. No wonder they allow people to upgrade for free because you are the product.
Btw there is a system process called idle PID 0
Just delete a small file named ntoskrnl.exe
This file is the root of all problems in windows
glad to be out of that 4-square hell OS
@@Fakyp It's probably not that making the fans ramp up. More than likely it's either BITS/Update/Image Servicing/App Installer/Defender
@@ahayesm ya probably, doesnt happen on mine
no matter what linux you install, you have certainly not as much telemetry as windows or macos
Fedora's integrated kernel telemetry goes brrrrr by the way. But in the rest of the cases Linux is my absolute favorite OS.
No one beats windows though for worst telemetry ever: worst for privacy, worst to turn off, worst for the user
macOS has none
@@Truth-p7c they have some but it’s not too bad
@@Truth-p7c Yeah lmfao what Mac os telemetry are they talking about.
Can you do Opera GX next? it's notorious for being a Spyware as well.
And Opera standalone. Im very sure those both are spyware.
It's already been done by someone else. Look up "opera spyware watchdog"
Older versions of opera apparently sent your GPS coordinates to them 💀
Once i used Opera and the very next day i found pictures of my asshole on the internet!
its already a spyware bro, use firefox or floorp (its firefox with more features)
I'm glad you countered the misconception that Ubuntu is spyware, even for Linux standards. I'm using Ubuntu on the daily and it's great but I keep feeling like I'm an idiot for using it because of people who don't use Ubuntu but other distros keep saying it's the worst distro.
Don't ever consider yourself an idiot because you are using x or y linux distro. At least you are using Linux and not Windows, be glad with yourself about that !
The distro that works for you is the best distro. ...unless that is a government-made distro like redstar os, Astra, Pardus, or Deepin. Then you should be concerned.
I am using Ubuntu too and I really like how almost everything just works. I get no issues installing any software in almost all cases
Ubuntu haters are funny. You'll be on platforms like UA-cam or Reddit that are proprietary and harvest your data heavily, but then they call Ubuntu spyware or complain about snap's proprietary server, despite the fact everything else is open.
I actually think there's a fair amount of things that you can criticize Ubuntu and Canonical for, but for some reason people focus on things that are not true or misleading.
Ubuntu is a very decent choice. Nothing to be worried about
7:18 Ubuntu does store your bash history, but bash only saves the history to that file once you close the terminal.
Ubuntu does also have some telemetry related to snap that I don't think gets disabled by the global telemetry option. As someone who has an app on the Snap Store, I am able to see aggregate stats including: total weekly users, number of users per country, number of users per distro, number of users using a specific version of the app, and number of users per channel (whether they're getting stable or beta versions).
Does that mean total weekly active users, meaning, it shares snap app launches with the developer?
@@mattvisaggio It's not shared with the developer directly. It's sent to Canonical, who then aggregates the data, then the aggregated data is sent to the developer. I'm not exactly sure how it measures the weekly active users.
@@that_leaflet sharing app launches is problematic to me. I don't like that and didn't realize. I'll have to figure out how to block that at the DNS level. Thanks for sharing.
@@mattvisaggio It's not sending a ping to Canonical every time you open an app. Based on what I've read, telemetry is only sent to Canonical when snap refreshes.
If you don't trust Canonical to anonymize basic telemetry, then you really shouldn't trust the OS.
Besides, you're using UA-cam right now that is mining your data. Apps themselves, especially proprietary apps, are already sending pings to their servers whenever you open them, and they are not trying to preserve your privacy like Canonical is.
@@that_leaflet fair enough. When I open an app depending on a network to function, I expect communication to happen. When I open the libre office snap for example, I don't expect there to be app opens tracked. I think that's an important distinction to make. Aggregating snap app opens to send at refresh should not be bundled into collection in my opinion if the user has opted out of telemetry.
I caught Mac OS sending data to Apple when I would copy something to my clipboard. This was Catalina so fairly recent.
If you're paranoid, install Portmaster to block any strange connections and monitor every traffic.
Now I wonder if Floorp, another fork of Firefox such as Librewolf, would also act ilke Librewolf in the sense of it not sending any data or more like Firefox with it sending some data.
the dev is active on reddit and says that floorp is more private than vanilla firefox but if you want privacy then librewolf is better
@starilake2 Yeah, I read through a lot of the documenting of Floorp and the various patches it uses, and it says it uses Librewolf patches too, if I remember correctly.
The problem I've seen with ubuntu is their walled garden of snapd, the linux mint guy even as soon as 4 years ago said how the chrome package is empty and it opens a backdoor to snapd without your consent which is shady as hell.
you should make a throw away google account with some throw away game or website account and install rats to see what they try do with the information
yes
99% of cases literally nothing, and if account status like premium isnt stored in cookies they will just combolist your accounts -> login into all of them and never touch again
@@PaLaS0 true but ive seen cases where for examples outlook accounts are set up for malicious use
Very nice glad to see people testing linux distros just to make sure ❤
You can turn off telemetry AND it's anonymized AND you're presented with the slider for it when you install.
shill
I love how a slider bar and a switch makes people actually believe that they're Anonymous and not being tracked entirely false sense of privacy is what it is lol
@@NotYours-bp5fx we are anonymous. at least those in EU
I'm not even getting paid. I do like Kubuntu though. @@LethalBubbles
@@NotYours-bp5fxI always encourage people to NOT trust what they are told, which is why I verified no network traffic for myself with a VM and telemetry/auto updates disabled.
I encourage you to do the same.
so at 4:10 you said "no, we dont want to pay for that" but its actually free for personal clients (only businesses need to pay) for up to 5 devices
I'm fairly certain the bash history file only gets written after closing a shell session and is enabled by default from upstream, so if that terminal window was the first bash prompt in that environment, that would explain why the file isn't present.
thats so annoynig, trying to delete it but then it alwys comes back!
@@apache937 the history file path is a environment variable, you can change it in .bashrc to devnull or empty. no more history ever
@@apache937 If you have a reason to not want it storing history, you should be able to set the HISTFILE environment variable to point at /dev/null. I haven't tried that myself, but I see no reason it wouldn't work
It's written after each command. You can disable it with:
echo 'unset HISTFILE' >> ~/.bash_profile
As long as you aren't using RedStar OS, just about any open source distro that has good reviews and wasn't developed by some nationstate SHOULD be fine. That being said, check your checksums and monitor network traffic using a VM from another OS (to ensure that traffic isn't being obfuscated by the same OS) you should be safe.
I say that because I assume that OSX or Windows will not bother to hide any possible tracking that a Linux OS is doing in a VM. Ultra paranoid approach? Yes. Unnecessary? Yes. Will this work? Maybe.
I know this is a super paranoid take, but if data privacy is your #1 concern, why risk it? Nothing is perfectly secure, if it was then updating software would be obselete.
Stay safe guys, and thanks for reading my schizo rant 😂
really liked this. we need stuff like this to confirm and or deny suspensions. thank you, subscribing.
I randomly found your channel but now for past five videos you post i have seen to gravitate to your videos because your videos are very informative. Keep it up
next fedora plz this channel is so good i feel like user's power is back and you know what stuff coming in and out which is amazing!
I love these videos. Almost nostalgic but also fresh & new
Ubuntu is the only nice looking Linux distro GUI out the box.
Well yeah very reminding of macos but free. Also often updates and easy to understand like any linux.
Can you test with Waterfox?
I wonder if anything shows up when you open the snap store (the included application store) or the moment when you install something from the snap store
Snaps have malware.
Thank you Eric for all your videos seriously, I've learned a lot from going through your stuff not only basic things but also some more handy ones.
Ubuntu has more critics because people don't like change and they compare it to Windows. There are a lot of privacy complaints about Windows but people will continue to use it.
or maybe gnome and mozzila suck
@@ChrisWijtmans Mozilla has made some poor decisions such as Google being the default search engine which defeats the whole purpose of having a privacy centered browser.
ubuntu is the best, but their forums staff are the worst
I imagine there's at least one manager at Canonical that still has PTSD from that PR debakle with sending data to Amazon, and that insists on testing the default config for that every release.
Really. What were they smoking?
I remember when Ubuntu first came to the scene and people were saying that the day one... Dunno but that's been the word.
I use Ubuntu and haven't seen any weird packets whenever I do probings like this. I have only used desktop versions since 18.04 and have the GUI store nuked though. The things I'd complain about are that Ubuntu has firewall off by default, requires extra steps to set up SELinux and has a few default settings (e.g. ssh agent) enabled that render it much less secure. Other than that, its compatibility is really good and it installs/runs smoothly on wild hardware.
can you do one video for parrot os, i know its counter intuitive, but the tool that make you anonymous could take data probably
You can disable what you wish on windows, it won't help, built into the os snoops . . . PS 24.04 is a pre release like windows it self checks its progress through you for updates, discontinued as lts is released. Firefox sends what videos you watch as required by law. What do you think of Windows (king of the spyware?)
This video will be very interesting considering its ubuntu
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@@Magiczny-Krzysztof wrong
Tentei instalar o Mint baseado em Ubuntu e Debian (nova versão). Nunca tive problemas com máquinas anteriores, mas dessa vez tive e por dois motivos: kernel e falta de suporte para o driver Everest Audio. Estava impossível continuar, e com muita dor no coração voltei para o Windows.
Linux does not collect any sensitive information from the users. That's what makes it great. It respects the people.
The way to disable it in firefox is simple. Search privacy inside options and remove studies. Now the question would rather be, what are they sending after you disable that?
You can no longer rely on the fact that an option is shown as deactivated, meaning that data will not be transmitted. We lost that trust a long time ago, regardless of the software.
Nice, can you do Pop OS, Mint or Fedora?
I am curious about Mint, being based on Ubuntu
Why? People would have already reported any nefarious activity going on and the Linux community would have gone into meltdown. Just look what happened with "LinuxFX".
@@notjustforhackers4252 Fedora was weird for me, it is fast and all, but something just seemed off
Ubuntu pro is free for personal use up to a few devices iirc now. Just need to set up or sign into your Ubuntu account
> Ubuntu account
the what. that is microsoft accounts all over again
@@apache937 at least it's optional unlike a certain company _cough_ windows _cough_. Ubuntu pro enables rebootless kernel security patches and a couple more features aimed more at the people who need the max uptime; like a NAS or whatever is needed.
@@apache937it’s not mandatory like ms accounts and windows
Gosh you people complain a about everything
To me the point of Linux is to escape making an account just to use an OS. I'm good on that.
Excited to see the Mac version. The search bar also shows web hits, so there’s certainly going to be network traffic there to give you those results
can you do the same with deepin too?
I like Linux I came from windows I’m moving from windows to Linux I do like Debian too vanilla os isn’t to bad either ☺️
What OS do you use as your primary/host
windows 9
I think a limux distro that runs on gnome.
he uses arch + gnome
Windows 2000
what about linux mint
Probably safer than Ubuntu and faster with out the snap
What about arch with kde and pop_os and kali
Oh lord... I remember the Amazon web search thing. They told you right up front and you didn't have to use it. I hate(d) Unity so I didn't install Ubuntu anyway.
How do you set up proxy for the whole virtual system? How can I set up a proxy for a QEMU/KVM VM?
Can you mitm windows and show what's the content being sent with default win 10/11 install?
anyone who cares isn't using it, anyone who is using it doesn't care
@@anonymousalexander6005 You forgot to mention your secret thought that you think when you are in your room alone 🙃
Librewolf browser I see
I meant libreWolf browser
I’d be interested to see what telemetry is sent if you register a Microsoft account in the settings “connect accounts”.
Tor browser if you like it to use a private browser
Any plans for a video discussing VM escaping worms?
Okay, but where's that undetectable Qemu/KVM vm?
What if it using another protocol lol
wireshark.... have fun trying to scour thru that
the fact that so few people pointing to this makes me feel sad :(
What's your main os
can you check fedora and pop os and elementary os? its going to be a fun ride when u get into elementary os.
can you do same thing with vscode or brave?
What’s Ubuntu
I run Ubuntu as my main desktop and this video made me feel much better about the accusations. Thank you.
😂
More proprietory = your drivers doesn't suck.
I don't see how this is a bad thing, show me one opensource driver as frequently updated and as full as features as a proprietory one. Same goes for codecs.
Yeeahh! I tried a fresh install of 2 Mint versions. Ubuntu and Debian based.
Bro, how I regreted it. My motherboard is one of newer versions. No way kernel recognized audio driver.
I am decreasing my chances of being spied on by even possibly ditching social media question for people is Garuda Linux safe they claim to be aimed at privacy as well to be a "gaming" distro which is good because I am done with Windows End of Life policy and the you don't own it policy. So I decided to say screw it and joined the Garuda distro I am limiting my access online because how corrupt everything is becoming if we were in a Bruce Willis movie we might as well be in the movie Red right now where uncle Same knows what you're doing regardless don't think I haven't thought about disconnecting from the grid all together and disappearing from all of it due to corruption.
Mr. Antivirus parker is here to save the day! (And possible social insecurity about what questionable stuff one keeps on their PC)
9:00 ~ I would be fairly confident of the standard gnome version. I am somewhat sceptical and cautious about Canonical, because history, and because they're in very tight with micro$oft.
You get a choice at install to include or not include Active Directory.
I would be a bit more concerned about Ubuntu Kylin. I have heard some stuff about what they add with their native Chinese language desktop. I don't blame Canonical, I don't even blame the Chinese devs, I blame the Chinese government.
If I understand right, the idea is that Ubuntu Kylin is used quite widely in official Chinese government and education and such, and they requested an ability to track their workers. All that is opt-in by default. It's not meant to spy on people out in the wider world. At least that's what they say, but then they would say something like that, wouldn't they?
Kylin is a lot more like Windows, in terms of what it reports, including the scope and scale and detail of its reports. Having said that, my largest source for this, also repeatedly says things about Mint that are misleading or simply false.
If you want a more 'recent' and up to date kernel in Mint, it's very easy to install one. They do tend to hang onto lower version numbers for a while, but they're quite recent revisions of those 'old' kernels. Things that have been patched since version 5.x.x, those patches do get back-ported to the Mint standard kernel. If I go uname -a now, I get
~$ uname -a
Linux main 6.5.0-41-generic #41~22.04.2-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Jun 3 11:32:55 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
-------
June 3rd that was compiled.
Note that I'm posting this on June 9. That kernel was compiled 6 days ago. That's not an ancient creeky bug-fest waiting to expose your privates on the dark web. Maybe it doesn't have the high version number you like from Arch, but that doesn't make it an Old Kernel.
Ubuntu used to do just that when they had their Amazon thing which was enabled by default and not mentioned by Canonical anywhere.
There is something suspicious about ubuntu, so many vulnerable packages such as openssh-client are dependencies for gnome-control-center etc. Now if you remove openssh-client, the whole system stops working as they have openssh-client as a dependency. Ive also noticed this with the bluetooth drivers, gnome-remote-desktop, cups, saned, snapd etc. It seems to me the developers intentionally planted backdoors to the system and did it such a way that if u remove the backdoorable processes the entire system stops working.
0:04 similar Windows 11
8:48 is the final answer
4:10 funny thing, ubuntu pro is actually free
04:55 If Firefox sent your search history to themselves half of the 16 year olds would be in prison
are you one of those 16 year old?
@@pablooskibar4843 no
Question for anyone who still says it's spyware after watching the video: what can I do to check that. We've literally seen the contents of the requests Ubuntu sends. Of course, I'll replicate this for myself, to be sure, but if you think it's spyware, what else can I do to prove that it is (or any other distro, for that matter)?
Where else could they be hiding the telemetry? If anyithing collects data, it still has to send it somehow, so it should show up in the requests, am I wrong?
I'm genuinely just curious, because I'm about to switch to Linux, and I'd like to investigate my potential chosen distros for myself.
Ignore the claims about spyware. It's just noise
how to you setup the proxy?
1:55
> sees plain web requests
> closes the video
Can you do a video on Kaspersky and if there is any truth to the US gov's fearmongering around it?
4:08 "Free for up to 5 machines"
"We don't want to pay for that"
3:35 it detected mitm proxy
It shouldn’t be an issue. Saying right off the bat. It does send data to Canonical but not much… saying this before I watch
Ok so it’s not “spying” - *but it’s still Ubuntu*
GOOD!!! thanks for this piece of info, it is very useful for what i'm doing
Hello! Can you make "Is Windows Spying" video? I love this video.
The last person who did that with Windows 10 disappeared unfortunately.
@@mrkitty777 :P
@@mrkitty777 was he found that he committed su!c!d3 with 15 shots in the back?
Can u check if thorium has telemetry next time?
i love your channel but youtube seems to be relentlessley unsubing from your channel to the point where i have to resub everytime i watch one of your videos even if i subbed while watching the previous video i have to re sub
There was one little thing, and its totally optional. Everyone in the "free software extremist" community shat themselves when it came out and felt personally betrayed (thats the impression I got from their article, as dumb as that is). Its literally a non-issue, just gatekeeper nonsense. Just like ppl that gatekeep music, when they should just he happy that people are moving towards the right direction. For someone to leave Windows for Ubuntu, these idiots should be pleased with that.
Holy shit, that installer looks extremely good!
Can you Inspect Linux Mint?
Probably not going to do many distros unless there is a good reason for suspicion.
@@EricParkerDeepin may be better for this considering it's chinese
@@EricParker What about Wubuntu? It's a bit on the sketchy side.
@thel3218 Deepin is chinese? Thats definitely a good video recommendation
@@EricParker uwuntu?
So switch to linux or stay windowing?
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Ubuntu has no spyware. Case closed.
It was quite frustrating to see the thumbnail just after deciding to move on to Linux from Windows
this being done on windows vs any linux distro is such a stark contrast LOOL.. people you NEED to GTFO windows lol.. every windows video like this I seen it starts sending your data off the rip lol. way more then what Firefox and the ubuntu stuff did lol
Ubuntu is a good distro, man.
Anything that has corporate backing always smells fishy.
And store no System data sharing 🙄🙄
Can you try GrapheneOS?
Eric, do you know how could we block all telemetry requests? maybe with the squid proxy?
a pfsense firewall lol
of course not ubuntu is not windows.
Is Pop OS spyware as well then because it’s based on ubuntu?
8:51 "Ubuntu (modern versions of it) do respect user privacy", but it does have optional telemetry that collects a bit of hardware information. And while Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu, it doesn't collect any user telemetry.
If I could view the source code, does that mean I am also spying on GNU/Linux?