Privacy-focused channels on YouTube. Which ones do you watch on a regular basis?
Privacy-focused channels on YouTube. Which ones do you watch on a regular basis?
My list:
- Techlore
- Surveillance Report
- NBTV (Naomi Brockwell)
- Mental Outlaw
- Luke Smith
- Eric Murphy
- The Linux Experiment (More about Linux, but there are also videos about privacy)
- Louis Rossmann
TheHatedOne
He's hardcore anti-corpo and money-interests, so much that he refuses any sponserships and condemns them universally.
Good stuff, well researched, only downside is that he takes a long time to upload stuff.
I'd consider that "downside" an "upside" (or whatever the word would be) since better quality, but I see what you mean
Fair point lol.
Thanks for the recommendation, didn't know this channel!
For all the people saying that privacy-oriented Youtube channels are a contradiction.
The point of these channels is to make more people privacy conscious. And where do you find people that aren't very privacy conscious? That's right, YouTube. I actually think what these creators are doing is a great sacrifice in terms of their own, personal privacy, but making people aware.
Exactly!
Mental Outlaw if I want to see a funny corpo le bad video.
Eric Murphy if I'm more serious.
Mental Outlaws tech content is good. But wish he would leave his political views out...
It's sometimes very good content, other times you can tell he's talking out of his ass and trying to be edgy. A good "expert" should be able to admit that they have blind spots, and refer you to better sources of info.
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heh, kinda same situation 🙂
Its kind of ironic that you posted a list of YouTube links.
yup 🙂
Mental Outlaw
SomeOrdinaryGamers (?)
Louis Rossmann (?)
OOO, Louis Rossmann, how could I forget. Need to add to the list :)
sometimes I'll watch Rossmann but anything more and my anxiety spikes
I love how how angry and focused he is. Sometimes I put him on while doing chores to listen to him ramble
In the realm of privacy, paranoia can often trump reason. Known issue. Passed on myself.
I know its not a YouTube channel but man I will prefer Michael Bazell from Intel Techniques over all these YouTube Channels. He does privacy and security for a living so he knows his thing and its very realistic about privacy and security.
Sounds cool. However, as I understand it, his books are paid, which means that i won’t be able to read them, there are problems with payment :(
I just checked and Libgen has these.
Yes they are paid because he doesn't have any sponsors , no company paid him everything is his own work and experience. He also has a new method to sell his knowledge which is through a PDF so if you are interested let's say how to improve privacy and security on Apple devices you buy the PDF for $15 and then they will keep sending you updates as need it. Its much cheaper than the books and you get exactly what you need not like the book where get everything at once.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
He is also on Odysee. Here’s the link to his channel.
I watched him before too. But then somewhere in another YouTuber’s video I heard that in one of the repositories, I think his social network, there was a stub for encryption, although it is still stated that E2EE is there. After this my trust was broken. Plus, I have little trust in people who so actively push their products through video. I think it’s not for nothing that his VPN service is not on the lists of the best.
Luke + MO
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Not providing any channels (the ones I know the most about are listed by OP and commenters), but more about non-YT versions of channels about privacy being on YT. For people that use YT but are open to LBRY/Odysee/PeerTube. I have found these extensions to be great for quickly seeing if a channel is also on those services. If anyone knows of others like these, I would like to know about them. And for anything that isn't also on them of course Invidious instances are great for at least having some amount of privacy while dealing with YT (at least until Google finds some way to stop them from working).
Disclaimer: I am not a dev (or these or anything) or an auditor of security, so I can't say how good or bad these are outside of personally finding them useful. I also am not affiliated with them and again just find them good for seeing if non-YT versions of channels exist.
For LBRY:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-lbry/
For Odysee:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/
For PeerTube:
Invidious or Piped 😀
Mainly mental outlaw
The Hated One is my favorite. I also like Mental Outlaw.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Outlaw and hated one, sometimes rossman.
I like Luke, but watched for his opinions in things honestly.
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i'd probably say naomi brockwell's nbtv. idk why but she explains things so easily and makes some okay recommendations. i wouldn't say she gives the best recommendations but her channel is the one i always come back to.
She looks like she's definitely dedicated to her mission.
I've only seen NBTV but interested to check out the others
NBTV is awesome. Really like the way thoughts are presented. And strong stand on privacy.
"Privacy-focused YouTube channels" - sounds like a contradiction...
What kind of life do you live that you're watching privacy YouTube channels? Peer tube maybe I guess makes sense but you might be barking up the wrong tree.
Also... idk how you legit watch Luke Smith after listening to him idolize the Unabomber and bitch about roads.
What's so surprising about this? This is just the kind of content I like on YouTube. Someone is watching cats, someone is watching videos about privacy :)
I watched several videos from Luke Smith about privacy and custom ROMs on the phone. I didn't see the rest. Perhaps it should be removed from the list, because... i don't watch it all the time.