A few days back I watched a SomeOrdinaryGamers video, in which he states to drive a Tesla car, despite expressing the obvious privacy concerns surrounding the built-in camera system; but doesn’t seem to consider the privacy-impact to those around the vehicle, he chooses to drive through public streets. And another example being Rob Braxman, while ironically, both known to frequently criticize other public-facing, internet connected surveillance systems (like Ring for example).
If it was “just” a cabin camera, staring you straight in the face every time you drive your car (and you’re somehow okay with that), it would still be a terrible look in context with your channel content, but at least it is contained to you personally. But knowingly driving these surveillance nightmares on wheels through public streets, subjecting others to that surveillance, while you represent pro-privacy channels online, is just inexcusably hypocritical to me. But perhaps it might just be me, so what are your thoughts?
techlore?
Naomi Brockwell?
not so “horrible”, i think
Don’t forget The Hated One.
i haven’t heard of the hated one before. I tried to watch this ☞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AynIIFM2WU but i couldn’t get past the "it was i… i said… i was first
3 minutes already and no information.
isn’t techlore the one who said iphones are better for privacy than even linux computers? 🤣
I’ve been following their content pretty closely, and I do not recall anything of that sort. They did recommend iPhone over stock Android, which is accurate.
So until you can produce a source to that claim, I call horseshit.
i stopped following him after he said it.
i’m not about to go digging into years of his stuff just so you don’t have to.
Not how this works, mate, but you do you.
thankfully i don’t see anything in the rules that say i have to source every inane comment i make here to appease your fondness of a specific youtuber.
The rules of rational discourse are centuries old. But if you need them spelled out once more, here they are: If you claim shit, you back it up with evidence. If you can’t or find weird excuses why you shouldn’t have to, people will legitimately call you out on making shit up.
Case in point: I think you made a case for torturing fluffy little ducklings with red-hot pokers in the past. You’re a bad person for doing so. I can’t find a source right now that proves you did it, but I’m sure it’s somewhere in your post history. So unless you prove you didn’t say that (which is impossible, btw), I expect you and everyone else here to accept my claim as true.
k, guess the reddit people arrived.
and even if you do give them a source, they just reject it because it doesn’t come from a propaganda mouthpiece.
That seems reasonable. Linux computers are only secure with a skilled user, the average user likely has their privacy better protected by iOS which while slightly weaker on privacy is much more locked down on security.
i don’t think that matters that much when you are forced to accept their privacy policy to use the app anyway, which is much less of a thing on linux computers than on phone oses. i don’t really see how you’d need to be skilled to take advantage of it.
I mean yes I could see that for average person. Nothing makes a Linux computer private. You can still use chrome. Allow ads to track you, tons of people don’t use ad blockers. I mean saying a default iOS device is can be more private then default Linux PC I could see it.
did he? when, where? context?
techlore is an up to date privacy source for me. Their commentary on recent events is sometimes helpful
it was a few years ago now, i won’t be able to find it, but it was on youtube.
That’s a very lazy follow-up to quite a broad claim. Please do provide evidence.
Even Braxman isn’t too bad if you can separate the information from his product advertisements and his… personality.