I don’t see what’s wrong with it tbh… It’s what’s Substack has been doing all along… also it clearly says “if you make quality content”… which makes sense…

Explain that to someone who tells you: “no, bring back Window to my laptop” … It’s the sadest sentence I hear

Usually the final blow is when they try to install an .exe file by double clicking it and it doesn’t execute

The look on her face is priceless… 😂

That’s why UPS boxes exist … Or Timeshift if you don’t have the cash

Yep, they’ll ask you to step inside a booth, face a tablet and that thing will take a snapshot of your face, what a dystopia ??!!

Have you seen Carburetor ?

I go even further and state that monitoring all financial transactions is good for a democracy

How so ?

almost all transactions are monitored anyway

I beg to differ… how do you think cartels get their funds ?

It’s difficult to parse when your brain defaults to “one of these parties are unfairly maligned” - when the truth is they’re both shitty.

Oh, glad someone said it… this is a common theme on the Internet 😭… It’s okey

It’s a shame. Some years ago I got a lot of value from both websites, but haven’t really followed digital privacy trends lately.

when you’re a beginner you tend to accept advice from anyone in the field, this makes sense because you don’t know which advice to trust, but once you understand the principle, you look back and just know instantly who gave you bad advice vs good advice…

If someone tells me to use a degoogled phone and later I see they’re using an IPhone, it’s not great look… ( for them )… It’s disappointing ( just an example )

It’s such a time sink to gauge the value of everything by yourself.

Whatelse you can do ? Not much… accept keep on learning, I enjoy these kind of stuff, and the more I learn the more I realize the tools we use aren’t perfect and they have many flaws… in technology I learned to be careful before adopting new technologies and not just jump on the hottest thing, I have to resist the Tech enthusiast within me if I wanna satisfy the privacy advocate ( the opposition within me )

I think I got confused by this Lemmy post claiming it was taken over, not “attempted”. If it was taken over, then why would they shoot themselves in the foot?

They stole their funds, git repos, subreddit… they might as well declare it’s the end of the website even though they still hold ownership to some extent … That’s my understanding of it at least

Privacytools seems shadier though, even if they’re claiming to be victims

I agree

This is all really insane. But there are people here saying that privacyguides are reputable

It is indeed insane, at least PrivacyGuides doesn’t push for shitty products and insult his followers for not supporting him, however toxicity towards other projects ( especially GrapheneOS ) is completely allowed on their channels…

I’m not saying we should cancel them and never speak about them again, but if you’re a fan of PG you should hold them accountable, because they can do better

As for Techlore, 😮‍💨…I don’t think there’s hope for Henry… he went too far, he earned the title of a “privacy scammer” for me… and the sad part is that he knows it, he knows he’s in it for a quick buck not to spread the message

I’m not sure, maybe they thought it’ll be more visible for the website followers…

Defending ? so showing that Techlore is doing the same thing ( actually way more worse ) means I’m defending PT ?

I’m not going into who’s more corrupt than the other, but I can provide a different source, if you think this one is problematic

But yanno why I’m not focusing on Privacy Tools that much…A - because this post is about Techlore. B - Because the project is dead, so what’s the point?

his shit website

Using this language means nothing to me, and doesn’t effect me in anyway shape or form… I have no gain in the matter… they can both be down tomorrow, and I wouldn’t care

Instead of searching for a “trustworthy” source… whatever that means… Learn about which criteria you should look for when choosing a VPN… learn who are the creators of such service and their experiences…

And then you won’t need to trust, you’ll be able to evaluate

There’s no pretending… if you actually click the link the first video is about the practices or Techlore, so I’ll make it easy for you :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cEfJ1UTNvw

The rest of the article, talks ( with proof ) about the betrayal of Jonah Argon, changing the website license for example…

got butthurt when people created better alternatives that actually gave genuine advice instead of ads.

Really ? Sounds like a very childish thing to be mad about… Especially when you realize there are many websites and blogs that are written by experts

I’m not trying to be funny, I’m saying what happened, and simply don’t trust Techlore because or the lack of ethics…and going after the cash grab… What kind of Privacy minded individual drives a Tesla? Uses Apple hardware? Promotes proprietary solutions?

genuine advice instead of ads

Techlore literally said buy my course so you’ll have an ad free experience… And PrivacyGuides covers surface level stuff…

Since you noticed the bias, let me give you the real dark history of both Techlore and PrivacyGuides ( Jonah Argon ) and how they took over Privacy Tools.io and closed their subreddit.

https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover

Don’t trust Privacy YouTubers, trust experts who know what they’re talking about

If lunduke reports on it, yanno there’s an agenda… A browser for humanity he said !! 😑 we haven’t even started yet…lol

And now you’re here, arguing with kids, because you’re also a kid… Nice try.

Soooo, if you’re homeless and broke they want nothing to do with you… 🙂🤔

Edit: Oh, btw… happy birthday… Or registration day into lemmy 🎂… lol…

Sponsored Shortcuts, which is an alternative term for advertisement

That’s simply incorrect, Sponsored Shortcuts work differently than ads, in the later you’re tracked and your PII gathered.

Because it’s gay… 😅

it couldn’t be as degoogled as LOS because LOS is vanilla

This is about to change since LOS are about to include MicroG by default in future releases… Or so I heard from some Mastodon users who shared screenshots about an LOS update that installed MicroG

GOS is private and secure more than any other ROM, but once you install the Unprivileged play store you lose some of that privacy while retaining security, MicroG is private but not as secure

Still it’s a shame that LOS can’t find a better supporter than Google

Wdym?