Escaping Apple's Garden - Privacy Wins Of The Week!

Welcome to Techlore's privacy wins of the week, where our community shares their tech wins. It can be privacy, security, or anything else tech-related! Join next week's stream in the pinned post on our forum: discuss.techlore.tech/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:02 Escaping Apple’s Walled Garden 8:42 Why not all ecosystems are necessarily bad 10:27 Why black-and-white thinking in the privacy community is problematic 13:24 Why you should use a password manager 15:52 Why virtual machines are a great privacy & security tool 20:22 Why I’m mixed on recommending Proton’s ecosystem 21:20 An update on my thoughts on Lunatask 22:56 My thoughts on Bunny DNS 23:50 A tip to avoid going to spam with Proton Mail 25:35 What Linux distro do you use? 26:25 What’s your opinion on Cloaked? 28:02 What’s your favourite Mastodon client? 29:17 What are your thoughts on QubesOS? 32:28 Important lessons to be learned from the Firefox TOS drama 35:57 How to get people to switch to Signal 38:35 Why you should free your router with OpenWrt 40:52 What are your thoughts on Andy Yen’s political takes 47:13 What phones do you recommend? 50:28 Thank you, Johnny O, for your donation! 51:22 Discussion about international credit freezing 53:12 Why we should support everyone’s privacy decisions 56:45 My thoughts on Tuta’s recent improvements 57:51 Why moving to open-source interoperable alternatives is important 1:01:15 Why you should switch from Authy 1:03:03 Zen Browser & alternative browser discussion 1:04:33 Beginner Linux advice and suggestions 1:07:20 Start of livestream Q&A 1:08:44 Discussing Firefox alternatives & whether it will be delisted from our resources 1:12:31 Security concerns with 2FAS 1:15:43 Discussing what browsers I am going to mention in my upcoming Firefox alternatives video. 1:17:23 Are there any updates on GoIncognito V2? 1:19:42 My experience with Obsidian. 1:21:51 Why you should join our forum! 1:23:04 What is your relationship to omg.lol? 1:25:11 What are your thoughts on BlueSky? 1:27:39 How can you protect yourself from Firefox telemetry? 1:28:07 What made you start doing regular livestreams? 1:31:26 Will you ever do a video editing livestream? 1:32:00 What is the best way to export your Google Photos data? 1:32:22 Is there a single thing you have used to show people that digital privacy is important? 1:33:01 Is it worth buying a Proton subscription? 1:34:26 What is your opinion on RiseUp email? 1:35:36 My thoughts on Bluesky’s UI. 1:37:33 What do you think of GNU Jami? 1:38:18 What’s the best way to pay for a VPN? 1:41:27 Discussion about Twitter/X’s UI & tips for making it minimal. 1:44:37 Conclusion of livestream & wrap up. 🔐 Techlore Homepage: techlore.tech/ 🕵 Go Incognito Course: techlore.tech/goincognito 💻 Techlore Community: discuss.techlore.tech/ 🏫 Techlore Coaching: techlore.tech/coaching 💬 Signal Group: discuss.techlore.tech/t/signal-usernames-are-here-… We cannot provide our content without our Patrons, huge thanks to: BRIGHTSIDE, Clark, Ente, Larry, Richard, Afonso, Johnny, Kevin, love your content, x, 3c3c1d, NotSure, Philip, Seth, Stephen, Steven, Timothy 🧡 Join them on Patreon: www.patreon.com/techlore 💚 To see our production gear, privacy tools we use, and other affiliates: techlore.tech/affiliates 💖 All Techlore Support Methods: techlore.tech/support #privacy #security #techlore