Tries soloing everything, then cries they’re tired…

Tech bros can’t think beyond themselves. When will they say work together, make a group, make your own little groups.

Start with stuff that affects others, like escaping Discord (or only keeping it to help more escape).

I’ve seen this dude’s videos before, it’s always the same. Whine about how hard privacy is in a monotone voice.

He’s not wrong, but goddamn is it monotonous content.

I tried to go hard on privacy, but the more you know the more you realize how difficult it is.

So, the best thing to do if figure out who you don’t want to see your info. If it’s the government then you are basically out of luck in my opinion.

I stopped stressing about it when I decided to not let my need for privacy to interfere with my work.

In my personal life, things are more private luckily.

hey E., tell Sloane I said “What up”

Maybe a bit old but nevermind

2:10 “I assumed that, if I couldn’t beat the system, there was no point on whatever I was doing”: that’s the old nirvana fallacy. The rest of the video is about dismantling it for the individual, and boils down to identifying who you’re trying to protect yourself against (threat model), compromising, etc.

It’s relevant to note that each tiny bit of privacy that you can get against a certain threat helps - specially if it’s big tech, as the video maker focuses on. It gives big tech less room to manipulate you, and black hats less info to haunt you after you read that corporate apology saying “We are sorry. We take user safety seriously. Today we had a breach […]”.

And on a social level, every single small action towards privacy that you do:

• makes obtaining personal data slightly more expensive thus slightly less attractive
• supports a tiny bit more alternatives that respect your privacy
• normalises seeking privacy a tiny bit more

and so goes on. Seeking your own privacy helps to build a slightly more private world for you and for the others, even if you don’t get the full package.