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 ?

Nothing much, just use them when I want to discover something new… news websites, books, series…places…etc

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… 😅

Alright then, it’s been fun chatting with you

never ever spread them as the truth.

How did you know it’s not the truth…because I implied it wasn’t… and I don’t see it as something that couldn’t happen, people asked for MicroG support for years…

ROMs without network support.

I’m not a huge fan of trolling

because they get money for doing it,

I can tell you no Open source ROM gets funds by Google, unless if it’s a program… For example GOS received many rewards for discovering vulnerabilities in AOSP

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?

That’s also not accurate, GOS comes fully degoogled, and doesn’t include any GAPPS or Google Play services, you have to install them yourself if you want compatibility with Google Apps or some banking apps

even though they are sandboxed. There is no way it can be more degoogled than LOS

That’s just false, even LOS isn’t fully degoogled and it still connects to Google in the background for necessary connectivity checks ( e.g. DNS ) and Esim activation for example

Ok… so from now on … when I see a “repackaged” Microsoft product that for some reason… which I don’t care to know… doesn’t ask for a payment… I can use it without restrictions ?!! that’s really nice of you Microsoft … thank you.

There’s a lot of false information in your statements, GrapheneOS is not spyware, and it does a better job at degoogling than any other ROM mentioned in this thread, the only one that comes close is DivestOS, and no eOS is NOT like Qubes…

GOS wanted to reduce the attack surface as much as possible so they removed all the unecessary Bloat, it doesn’t even ship with wallpapers !!

This list is not exhaustive and covers a tiny bit of the differences between these custom ROMs but it’s a good place to start

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm