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De-Googling is hard, but Proton, Tresorit, 1Password, Ente, OpenStreetMap, FreeTube, and more want to help you break Google’s monopoly over your digital life. How do they work, and why should you trust them?
Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1580105-de-google-your-life-part-2-ad-free-youtube/
Password Managers
- Bitwarden - https://bitwarden.com/
- KeePassXC - https://keepassxc.org/
- 1Password - https://1password.com/
- Proton Pass - https://proton.me/pass
Authenticators
- Ente Auth - https://ente.io/auth/
- Authy - https://authy.com/
Maps
- OpenStreetMap - https://www.openstreetmap.org/
- Magic Earth - https://www.magicearth.com/
- OsmAnd - https://osmand.net/
Cloud Storage
- Cryptomator - https://cryptomator.org/
- Proton Drive - https://proton.me/drive
- NextCloud - https://nextcloud.com/
- OwnCloud - https://owncloud.com/
- Tresorit - https://tresorit.com/
Adblock
- Pi-Hole - https://pi-hole.net/ - Our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXTnrD_Zs4
- uBlock Origin - https://ublockorigin.com/
- AdGuard - https://adguard.com/
YouTube Downloaders
- JDownloader - https://jdownloader.org/
- ezytdl - https://github.com/sylviiu/ezytdl
- tartube - https://github.com/axcore/tartube
- Stacher - https://stacher.io/
- Parabolic - https://github.com/NickvisionApps/Parabolic
YouTube Alternative Frontends
- FreeTube - https://freetubeapp.io/
- LibreTube - https://libretube.dev/
- Yattee - https://github.com/yattee/yattee
- Invidious - https://invidious.io/
- GrayJay - https://grayjay.app/
- Newpipe - https://newpipe.net/
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:03 Password Managers
4:00 Switching from Google Passwords
4:43 Two-factor Authenticators
7:09 Switching from Google Authenticator
7:56 Maps
10:17 Cloud Storage
13:47 Adblock
17:26 YouTube
18:21 Exporting YouTube data
19:13 Other YouTube alternatives
20:28 This one weird trick...
21:48 What should we dig into next?
some choices mentioned are questionable (e.g. Brave and PIA), some good solutions are omitted (Organic Maps), but otherwise it’s… surpringly not horrible.
Except for the video thumbnail.
He’s said that he hates it just as much, but it’s so effective that not doing it is just bad business.
“I know I’m making an idiot of myself but this way I’m making more money”
He runs a business. Many people’s livelihoods rely on the performance of their videos.
Paint it however you like, it doesn’t change the facts.
He makes a fool of himself for money. No one is disputing that. You seem to be painting that as a bad thing.
Linus is on the left, that’s the only reason I watched the video
What’s the issue with PIA? I’ve used it for quite a while and am quite happy with it.
The choice that surprised me was them recommending 1Password ($40/year) over Bitwarden ($10/year, solid free plan).
here’s a nice article about Kape Technologies, the owner of PIA and two other VPN services: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape-technologies-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-parent-company-of-cyberghost-vpn/
Thanks.
Yea, but also PIA has been independently audited multiple times and their zero logs policy seems to hold up.
Basically any VPN YouTubers shill is not going to result in a net gain in privacy (depending on your threat model) because many of them sell your data themselves, eagerly log traffic and comply with warrants, etc. Also their server IPs are usually known and blocked from various services.
yeah, I’m kinda mad that they omitted organic maps, in my experience it is the cleanest osm app available.
(it may not have the most features but it’s easy to use and reliable)
Out of the loop; what is wrong with PIA?
What’s wrong with using Brave.
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
the only horrible thing about this is how bad some of the alternatives are; somehow, it seems that google maps is the only one that will give you directions using public transit.
if I had to guess, it’s probably somehow related to how everyone uses Google’s standard for public transport feed. I just use a separate transit app that covers bajillion of different cities in my country and lets me buy tickets without using Google Pay.
Organic Maps is testing public transport navigation, by the way, but it’s not available in released builds yet: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md