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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No, that’s Techlore
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!
Its kind of ironic that you posted a list of YouTube links.
yup 🙂
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.
Yeah, I like his content mostly, but he has had a few braindead non-privacy-related takes
such as?
His physical security video after the CTO of square died was not great. It felt too soon to be using his death to spread a message, and it relies far too heavily on the hypothetical idea that a gun could have saved him from harm. I understand that yes, a gun may have been able to prevent the attack, but it felt sort of ridiculous to insinuate that a gun is necessary to avoid a situation like this.
Invidious link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KbfKSXlDeIQ
YouTube link:
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=KbfKSXlDeIQ
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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What political views? The crypto shilling and advertising his site?
He is very pro to Guns…
heh, kinda same situation 🙂
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 :(
You can subscribe to his podcast - it’s completely free. It’s called “Privacy, Security and OSINT show”
Yes the podcast is really good too.
Wait, did he restore it? SoundCloud was purged some time ago with only the “intermission” being available.
Yeah, not sure. Never used SoundCloud personally
SoundCloud is what Michael used to serve the podcast. Also, I’ve checked the blog some time after commenting, and
STATUS: The SoundCloud podcast archive is offline. We are researching new hosts capable of servicing this audience.
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.
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.
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 it 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.
good point! he does shill his phones and services frequently.
Marketing itself is not such a big problem. But unfulfilled promises are already a red flag.
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Outlaw and hated one, sometimes rossman.
I like Luke, but watched for his opinions in things honestly.
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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.
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:
Luke + MO
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.
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.
