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!
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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…
Yeah, I like his content mostly, but he has had a few braindead non-privacy-related takes
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What political views? The crypto shilling and advertising his site?
He is very pro to Guns…
heh, kinda same situation 🙂
Its kind of ironic that you posted a list of YouTube links.
yup 🙂
Privacy-focused? YouTube? 🤔
I watch people, not the platform.
Isn’t it like buying pro union t-shirts from Amazon?
Firstly, we do not have worthy alternatives (PeerTube and Odyssee are not yet sufficiently developed). Secondly, I watch them through LibreTube, so Google does not know information about me. Thirdly, the world consists of compromises. This is one of them.
I get it, I just find it ironic that people post privacy related content on a platform run by the worst company in the world privacy wise.
I think there are defendable grounds for saying someone posting about privacy on YouTube is and is not ironic. How surprising or unexpected it is depends on many factors like the poster’s goals, threat models, and degree of altruism, user expectations regarding the poster, and congruence or incongruence with all of the above.
Yep, totally depends how you look at it.
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Yes, for sure, by simply connecting to the internet using my local provider and public backbone infrastructure (I’m not in US) I’m supporting corporations. Next you will tell me I’m supporting Saudi Arabia by turning light on in my bathroom.
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The modern world consists of irony, albeit often sad. The goal of many of them is to reach ordinary people. And they watch videos on YouTube. The end justifies the means, I believe.
Andthee worlds servers are hosted by Google, Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). Are we not supposed to use the internet now?
This only makes sense if you think Google is the one who puts up all videos on YouTube, and it’s not a platform where basically anyone can put up a video about anything.
Because Amazon is the only one selling on Amazon? Ever heard of Amazon marketplace?
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 :(
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.
The model is good, I agree.
I just checked and Libgen has these.
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.
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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 😀
Luke + MO
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The Hated One is my favorite. I also like Mental Outlaw.
Outlaw and hated one, sometimes rossman.
I like Luke, but watched for his opinions in things honestly.
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Techlore and Mental Outlaw
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.
