“De-google your life” **uploads the video on KZread**

@PureRushXevus

28 күн бұрын

_video gets renamed to "Re-Google your life" 10 minutes later_

@Kylian381

28 күн бұрын

I agree a mirror LTT channel shut be made on something like odysee!

@buddybleeyes

28 күн бұрын

Literally what I was gunna say

@KurtMassa

28 күн бұрын

You could be watching on floatplane

@MagmaBow

28 күн бұрын

if the video was uploaded on a non-google platform, nobody will watch it as they already won't be using google

I am legally obligated to say that I use Firefox, just like 70% of the Wan Show audience

@commander3494

27 күн бұрын

Obligatory "I use Firefox, but Floorp", although im still not quite certain that it doesn't have at least some kind of spyware in it. But i'll stay anyways because vertical tabs :p

@Dawnbandit1

27 күн бұрын

Waterfox here. No Mozilla Spyware.

@SomeCuteDoragons

27 күн бұрын

Ok

@thegeekno72

27 күн бұрын

@@Dawnbandit1 lmao

@Skrenja

27 күн бұрын

I've been using Firefox for years now but Google is slowly bricking it, so I've switched to Brave now.

Honestly, I never understood people hating on Firefox. My everyday experience with it falls nothing short of what to expect with other big browsers, I'd even argue the contrary! And obviously knowing there's a nonprofit behind it, fighting for an inclusive and private internet for everyone just makes me love it more :)

@MJHeagy

24 күн бұрын

FF Desktop is UI is trash. I use Librewolf to browse. The FF UI on Android so much better.

@KenanGwallter

23 күн бұрын

The debugging experience on Firefox sucks ass.

@Drummer3333

23 күн бұрын

switched from firefox to chrome 15 Years ago, because it was realy slow at the time and the mobile Version was really bad. bookmark sync between mobile and desktop was easy using chrome everywhere. Only my lazyness is is holding me back switching to another browser. Which would be Firefox again.

@jzizka

23 күн бұрын

I've gotten dozens of emails xxx does not work on Firefox. If I didn't have to use it I might like it

@lennartjakob

22 күн бұрын

@@KenanGwallter what kind of debugging, cuz as a webdev this seems uninformed to me, the have devtools that rival edge's and both of them leave chrome in the dust

After google announced the AI integration into the search engine I switched my safari search engine to ecosia on my phone, and after youtube has been lagging horribly on chrome because I use an ad blocker, I was in the midst of changing my browser. This video is a godsend and now I have a path to follow on my journey to de-google my internet life

@mikkelbreiler8916

19 күн бұрын

For me the best solution to lagging KZread videos is not to allow the ads or keep several other browsers handy to see which one plays the smoothest, but rather to put my high speed internet to good use - download the video in high resolution then watch it anywhere with only the embedded sponsorship spots and if they are under 30 seconds I usually watch them instead of skipping forward.

@godsgranddad

13 күн бұрын

Oh my god is it the ad-blocker that makes it lag on browser??? I just thought my computer was fucked

@Gr95dc

13 күн бұрын

@@godsgranddad I thought the same back in January and this pushed me to finally buy a new computer just to find out it wasn't my old computer 🫠

@piero4706

12 күн бұрын

@@godsgranddad Google is waging war against ad blockers and has been accused of sabotaging other browsers that allow Adblocks, like Firefox.

@ReachTimeToWin

8 күн бұрын

While it's adblock that makes the browsing slow, it's SOME of the adblocks that have this behaviour, for instance UBlock origin doesn't have this problem. So, you'd have to check if your adblock it's suitable and doesn't trigger this slowness. Also, some other extensions do trigger this just by being in your computer.

Cant wait for google to mysteriously forget to suggest this series to people in recommended

@sunbleachedangel

27 күн бұрын

​@@mp3talonpeople who work on Google 100% don't use any Google services at all

@samsanimationcorner3820

27 күн бұрын

Can't wait for Google to Boeing Linus.

@explodatedfaces

27 күн бұрын

Google doesn't mind you using other services, they know the best advertisement they have going for their services is the poor quality of the services of others.

@CanIHasThisName

27 күн бұрын

Google really doesn't mind their services having known alternatives. The real problem isn't lack of alternatives, it's the inconvenience of using them instead of Google.

@andrewcook_

27 күн бұрын

​@@CanIHasThisNamein just this video, you'd be paying at least an extra $20/month. It sucks, it really does. They make it SO HARD.

"De-Google your life" *stares at title on Pixel 7 pro* ..."well about that..."

@TheBl4cKH4wK

26 күн бұрын

Fun fact: probably one of the most security and privacy focused ROMs is GrapheneOS, which only runs on Pixel phones. No root access needed and the web-based installer is dead-simple

@Zatmos

26 күн бұрын

Pixel phones ironically being the easiest ones to De-Google.

@emo4123

25 күн бұрын

@@Zatmos haha exactly

@Luke357

25 күн бұрын

@@TheBl4cKH4wK Ironically I have a Pixel 7 Pro with GrapheneOS. It was extremely easy to install and works great.

@hclyrics

25 күн бұрын

I purchased a Pixel solely for GrapheneOS. Until another smartphone manufacturer commits to a level of hardware security that attracts the GrapheneOS creator and crew, that's what I'm stuck with, I guess.

Something to note about Proton and Tuta for switching emails is that the end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) of the two services only work when one Proton mail is sent to another, or one Tuta mail to another. Sadly it's just not possible to have E2EE work without email providers like Gmail actually co-operating with Proton and Tuta's encryption methods. Therefore, if you send an email to your family members who all use Gmail or Hotmail accounts, you're guaranteed to not have a private, encrypted email sent to them, unless they also use Proton or Tuta. I'm not sure that Proton's encryption is compatible with Tuta's either. This isn't to say you should stick with filthy Google because it's encryption isn't cross-compatible; if we want to see change in the world of privacy (or lack of), we need to show the demand by supporting more privacy respecting services for the future. I'm so glad a big channel like Linus is spreading awareness about Privacy issues in the online world. even if some of the service suggestions in this video aren't the best for privacy, most are certainly a huge step-up from the popular big-tech options like Google & Microsoft.

@SpiderPig454

13 күн бұрын

You can send a password protected email to a non proton user that is end to end encrypted. It basically sends an email to the recipient saying they were sent a secure email with a link to it. They click on that, type in their password and they can read and respond to the email that way. Its a work around but yeah other people need to work together to allow encryption. It is still encrypted with normal TLS if sent without a password. For me though its mainly about not letting google snoop thru my emails more then having an encryptred convo with someone else thru email. To be honest email probably isnt the best platform for encypted convorsations anyways. Still should be something that is standard tho

@IslamicAudiobooksCentral

13 күн бұрын

Unlike Tuta, Proton uses PGP, an open standard so it is actually compatible with most other standard email providers like Gmail, Microsoft, etc provided the non-Proton user has set up their PGP keys in Thunderbird, K-9 with Open Keychain or other easy to use client. Our team has has tested this and it works. The new Thunderbird actually makes creating and using PGP extremely easy compared to older methods like using GnuPG on the command line. The other option is to use Delta Chat which supports automatic encryption using the Autocrypt standard. This also works with Gmail, Microsoft, Yahoo and most other providers as long as both parties use any client with autocrypt support like Delta Chat, K-9, SnappyMail, etc.

@prezentoappr1171

10 сағат бұрын

GPG encryption? Well privacy based guide are good divestos graphene guides privacy tool io And awesome privacy github

This is such an awesome series. While part of this I've already done alternatives for, getting to see a fully comprehensive overview with recommendations on alternatives is a lot more reassuring than trying to sort through clickbait articles to find good alternatives on my own.

linus searching "employee won't stay fired" and "biggest legal tv" is now canon

@YouTubetail

27 күн бұрын

Haha bro 😁

@sleepyhead9905

27 күн бұрын

Can you share the time stamp for this ?😅

@Princess_kitty14

27 күн бұрын

@@sleepyhead9905 0:07 look closely at the sheet of paper linus is holding on the bottom right part

@tristan7715

27 күн бұрын

@@sleepyhead9905 0:06

@mniakan754

27 күн бұрын

He’s just gotta come into terms with the fact that Colton was the guru that came with LTT headquarters building when he bought it and won’t be leaving

“Let’s start with the product that you’re most likely using right now…Google Chrome.” That would be KZread, sir.

@ultimateoriginalgod

28 күн бұрын

He uploads to his own version of KZread called floatplane, so that's probably why

@jacobmoore5240

28 күн бұрын

Yh he really did miss one there

@Xfade81

28 күн бұрын

err on a pc you use the site on a browser. it's not wrong.

@PK.Skerzos

28 күн бұрын

And no talk about how to adblock KZread

@alan4657

28 күн бұрын

@@PK.Skerzos and obviously didnt watch the video.

Thank you so much for this series. I'm taking this opportunity to de-google and, to an extent, de Apple my life.

Definitively need a follow-up to this with De-Microsoft your life, and probably many of the other big names in tech.

@joaomonteiro7063

24 күн бұрын

Good luck De-AWSing :/

@autarchprinceps

24 күн бұрын

@@joaomonteiro7063 Yeah, they didn't count transitive use of GCP here either. But it would be fun to see what is or isn't easily replaceable either way.

@vacatiolibertas

6 күн бұрын

What works for the goose, works for the gander

@0EEVV0

2 күн бұрын

De-microsoft and De-linux your life

@joaomonteiro7063

2 күн бұрын

@@0EEVV0 go to arm and develop your own kernel 🥳 on assembly

To completely de-Google this has to be a 10 part series at least.

@Brandon-bc5um

27 күн бұрын

and even then...

@easygoing4964

27 күн бұрын

​@@Brandon-bc5um you're still on youtube, so.....

@dubby5768

27 күн бұрын

​@@easygoing4964 I wonder how much you can really...

@dimon22323

27 күн бұрын

Multi-season sitcom you mean

@hubertnnn

27 күн бұрын

10 part? Are you expecting each part to be at least 10h long?

this is like a session with a therapist with a step by step plan about how to exit a toxic relationship

@sgt-wd

26 күн бұрын

Yes but the therapist is the toxic partner

I skip your advertisement but today I didn’t considering it is a very useful video and this initiative needs to be supported

Kagi is seriously underrated. Takes a bit of effort to set up on your phone, but its gold

@xtaltheo170

4 күн бұрын

how much is that thing? 🫦

@justus4justice

3 күн бұрын

@@xtaltheo170 I've been on the $10/mo plan for over half a year now. Once I had it set up (upranking/downranking/blocking sites), it's seriously better than any other search I've ever used. Once you start setting up your own Lenses for frequently used search domain, there'll be no going back. Kagi really drove home the "you get what you pay for" mantra for me when it comes to search.

Obligatory "I use Firefox" declaration here. My coworkers call me a boomer for using it though; even though I'm the youngest person there.

@BlueGrimgrin

27 күн бұрын

In the tech space, being called a Boomer is increasingly a badge of honor.

@SamWulfign

27 күн бұрын

@@BlueGrimgrin Absolutely, hilariously when the going gets tough I'm the person they turn to for recommending alternatives or solutions to new gen issues. like explaining torrents -_-

@hasidila188

27 күн бұрын

I use different browsers in order to isolate data being sent about their usage. I use Chrome to watch KZread too, because whatever I do in Chrome, Google knows anyway and whatever I watch in KZread, Google also knows. So I can't hide that part of my life from Google. But I can use Firefox on most of my other content consumption and I sometimes use even more browsers. So, be clever about it, don't just be stuck on one browser. I also use all sorts of other privacy-oriented techniques in combination with all that (especially phone - I have GrapheneOS).

@cieranholmes

27 күн бұрын

@@hasidila188but why not just watch KZread on your other browser then…? What’s the point of watching it on chrome?

@FaySmash

27 күн бұрын

I use Waterfox

i think this is probably one of the most important LTT video of all time. True to the roots of the channel, it provides literal tech tips for a significant part of life in 2024

@FSchack

26 күн бұрын

And... one of the most impossible things to do.

@vocassen

26 күн бұрын

@@FSchack Idk I'd think buying expensive GPUs or doing fancy DIY stuff that requires a workshop with laser cutter and brass soldering equipment is a lot higher up there Switching parts of your life away from google is far from impossible, I've done quite a few parts of it already over the past years. Will likely do more with this guide. Not impossible, just takes some effort

@jesuschrist6878

25 күн бұрын

@@vocassen I don't know how it is in other countries, but the UK government use Google Maps on their official website. We'll need a full-on, organised effort to purge Google from every aspect of our lives. Personally I'd advocate to just ban all these rotten yank tech companies, and replace them with our own rotten British ones.

@g4rb4g3

23 күн бұрын

​@@FSchackIndispensable services like KZread can be used through clients that remove telemetry. Newpipe is a good option.

@anonanon8057

23 күн бұрын

Except their search suggestions suck Duckduckgo and several others censor results. Privacy is a nice to have but irrelevant compared to censorship unless you're a very high profile figure. Since they collect so much info that unless your already flagged up nothing will happen.

thanks for the video, i was already using firefox but now I also have brave as my default search engine and i've started migrating to proton for my emails, can't wait for part 2

This is a pretty important topic that I've been trying for a while. Excited about this series!

I think a good addition to these types of videos is putting it all together and have someone actually take a suite of these products for a test drive, kinda like the Intel GPU or Linux challenge. Then they can let us know what worked well and what didn’t.

@hclyrics

25 күн бұрын

I second this. I've been somewhat privacy-conscious for a while, but really started dialing it in the last two years. I'm happy with everything I'm using now! Although I must admit, the KZread comments section is a hard habit to kick.

@tskk_NMSL

24 күн бұрын

I third

@MJHeagy

23 күн бұрын

There is a whole community dedicated to online privacy. Subreddit: Privacy KZread: Techlore, Surveillance Report, NBTV, Rob Braxman Tech Podcast: Closed Network Privacy, The lockdown The mentioned have done deeper dives in some of the products that are shown in this video then linus will ever do. Check them out.

@monkeyprojects129

23 күн бұрын

I sixths this

@MJHeagy

16 күн бұрын

@@hclyrics My origi.nal com.ment got delet.ed. Can you summarize what I said?

One thing that I believe is worth pointing out is that fully getting out of Google's ecosystem isn't something one can do overnight. Especially if you're very deep in, like switching from a Gmail address you've had for over a decade to a brand new email address. This sort of thing can take months if not years of work. Take it one step at a time and don't rush it. Start with one area--browsers, search engines, cloud storage, whatever, and work your way forward.

@Paulkjoss

27 күн бұрын

Very true, and should be pinned… But, your comment is so sensible, its hardly going to be noticed by the craziness here 😂…

@Simon-L-B

27 күн бұрын

I disagree. I was waist deep in Google ecosystem in all my software and hardware. Seriously, so much Google stuff. It took me a few weeks to move away and now KZread is my only Google service. There’s plenty of ways to make it easy to switch services, apps, and hardware. I think this fear of it being too much work is keeping people from making switches from one brand to another.

@josefinarivia

27 күн бұрын

You can automatically forward emails from your gmail address to another email address. That's what I did to switch to a new one. Makes it way easier to switch.

@EzCarebox

27 күн бұрын

⁠@@josefinarivia how does forwarding make u not use your previous email address? So the point overall was to not use that „old provider“ in the first place

@Simon-L-B

27 күн бұрын

@@josefinarivia but then your still 100% in Googles service. They have all your email data and your dependent on them to receive it. You need to login to your accounts and change your email address. The whole purpose is not to rely on Google and provide them with all your personal data.

Most important tech series in a long time probably. Props for sharing all this! :)

I've been watching you since you were a little kid, well to me at least. You are still by far my favorite channel. Honest and informative and entertaining. Thank you!

FireFox supports Ublock Origins, which basically ensures you never see an ad anywhere. Ever.

@pedro4205

28 күн бұрын

Also, dive into the settings and apply extra data sets that they offer and you can search for even more.

@jackisraelson787

28 күн бұрын

Yes and I rarely encounter a “disable your adblocker” pop up using uBlock so a win win for both

@Blasterxp

28 күн бұрын

Also.... Cookies notices and "share on social media"- popups... No thanks

@StereoBucket

27 күн бұрын

Firefox also has first party add-on "Facebook Container" that automatically puts meta products into isolated tabs. In case you wanna isolate a bit from meta as well.

@HazewinDog

27 күн бұрын

And Edge also has a built-in adblocker, both contrary to what Brave's website suggests... can't say I like their false advertising.

We REALLY need a "de-Microsoft your life" version of this asap.

@OlaviMurto

27 күн бұрын

Step 1: Use Linux for desktop (or buy a Mac) Step 2 (optional): PS5 or Switch or Steamdeck for gaming Done

@Mrsquiggley

27 күн бұрын

Linux/Mac. Libre office. PlayStation/Switch/Steamdeck. I haven’t interfaced with windows in two years.

@kostthemos

27 күн бұрын

Linux now supports a lot of PC games because of proton now, so gaming on PC using Linux is not even that much of a concern.

@libtrs838

27 күн бұрын

Don't use windows? Windows is the only Microsoft product I use and I wasn't intentionally avoiding Microsoft. It isn't nearly as omnipresent as google is and really not difficult to de-microsoft.

@durvsh

27 күн бұрын

Frankly that's much easier for home users. Most of the time it your OS and the office suite. Both of which have a lot of well established options. For office use though Microsoft just has way cheaper contracts and support. The most difficult of these is to de-adobify.

This is exactly what I need!! I've been on this quest for a few month. I hope this supercharges it!

I’ve been using Arc on Mac for several months now, and I absolutely love it!

The second chrome stops supporting ad blockers im gone 😂😂

@idzanmarkoprivate

28 күн бұрын

Firefox is waiting for you 😉

@HercadosP

28 күн бұрын

There will always be workarounds. It's an arms race and no one is winning indefinitely

@tiagobelo4965

28 күн бұрын

Librewolf works pretty well

@lpnp9477

28 күн бұрын

Why wait?

@TheBrokenEclipse

28 күн бұрын

Why wait?

Google: I track my users Windows: That's *cute*

@vinx5518

27 күн бұрын

bro😂 that's a anime waifu wanted to be called ' cute '

@pyyrr

27 күн бұрын

Microsoft: stop stealing our tricks

@VivekYadav-ds8oz

27 күн бұрын

This is kind of a truth that has been stretched so far it's a myth now. Windows really doesn't do behavioural analysis, though it does track your usage (when you are using your system). A guy on KZread Man-In-The-Middle'd his own Windows PC (by installing a custom root cert) and found out all the traffic that leaves his PC. It actually WASN'T as egregious as people shame Windows for. And yes, I'm not accounting for that new controversial Copilot+ feature right now, since there's still not as much concrete information about how it will be introduced. EDIT: And before anyone claims I'm a Microsoft shill, sorry to burst your hopes but I'm an avid Linux enjoyer. All my software (except maybe 1) is open-source.

@jothain

27 күн бұрын

Apple: You boys don't even know what data we have kept from your personal storage to ourselves.

@theliberator0390

27 күн бұрын

Google is the king of tracking and arguably the father of it, Microsoft is being the most notable company lately but they are still behind Google, they only started to ramp up their tracking around the win10 release

XD this was in my recommended, I had Firefox installed for months just never bothered to switch until now Great vid btw.

Love this content. This is the kinda thing I would love more off along with more deep dives

For anyone on the fence about the switch to firefox, I took the plunge after they mentioned it in a recent video, it's great and only took a few minutes to switch over with no issues

@lpnp9477

28 күн бұрын

Oh it has issues The question is whether or not you're willing to put up with them. If you really value privacy, do something like librewolf. If you want less Google and fewer headaches, do something like Brave. It's a sliding scale and Firefox is less googled but not entirely ungoogled. It has more frustrations than a Chromium based browser, but fewer than something like librewolf.

@czerskip

28 күн бұрын

Sadly, its default keyboard shortcuts are all messed up…

@aleksandersats9577

27 күн бұрын

I personally chose Waterfox which is firefox but more private in a nutshell. And it's the best descision I've ever done. The improvement over chrome was gigantic. And my favorite feature is that if there are too many tabs, you get a scrollbar instead of compressing tabs to oblivion

@Lauterec

27 күн бұрын

As someone who’s been off and on Firefox for ten years, it’s much better now!

@DarthVader-dc5ef

27 күн бұрын

@@aleksandersats9577 Florp is this as well

Bonus, by not using anything chromium based you're fighting google's monopoly Everything based on chromium uses the same rendering engine (Blink) and because most people use chrome or chromium based browsers, they basically get to decide how websites operate

@a1white

26 күн бұрын

Yes, totally this.

@FSchack

26 күн бұрын

Great that you're not using Chromium! Now, you are not using Android right? 😂

@theairacobra

25 күн бұрын

@@FSchack there are linux phones too

@oappi4686

25 күн бұрын

would be nice if only option wasn't mozilla. Personally, i feel like dart would have been better alternative to javascript, but mozilla refused to implement vm to run dart natively.... yea I know it is google's, but anything would be better than javascript.

@012345678944107

25 күн бұрын

Im using android with Firefox and ublock origin, no ads. Do you have this on iphone? ​@@FSchack

Where is Part 2?

Been using firefox since 2021 and love it!

Love these series focused on privacy / open-source software / de-megacorping your daily life, looking forward to the future Linux challenges as well!

@a.c.4054

27 күн бұрын

I've been hearing about Linux dominating the landscape of OS for only 30 years now.

@Neo-kx2qi

27 күн бұрын

I heard from WAN show that linus won't be doing the linux challenge until SteamOS gets released

@altrogeruvah

27 күн бұрын

@@Neo-kx2qi Yeah I know, that's what I was referring to

@TNH91

27 күн бұрын

@@a.c.4054 Well, AFAIK Linux has indeed been dominating the OS landscape... in servers.

@branmo_me

27 күн бұрын

​@@a.c.4054 Ikr? I wanted to get into Linux for years now and so don't know what Kernel to even start with because I can't be arsed to be reinstalling an OS every week

The timing of this video is impeccable. I'm in the middle of switching to Linux and attempting to get away from every single *insert bad company here* that I possibly can. Can't wait to see what you have to replace KZread. Hope it's not just FloatPlane lmao

@kyokazuto

27 күн бұрын

KZread is a tough one, i mean there's invidious and newpipe and stuff like that, or entirely other platforms but not having access directly to KZread's content and being able to interact with it feels like giving something up.

@Stinggyray

27 күн бұрын

Running a video hosting company is so ruinously expensive that it's near impossible to compete. Google can only afford it because they are an advertising company first and foremost. So I am also curious what they will put forth as an alternative.

@truthdoesnotexist

27 күн бұрын

peer tube and odysee are solid platforms

@yag-yet_another_gamer

27 күн бұрын

​@@Stinggyraynot if the video files are decentralised.

@maxcurrent485

27 күн бұрын

LBRY has a linux client, but Odysee can be used without it, and Bitchute isn't decentralized but it allows direct tipping so that's kinda better than the whole "become a patreon supporter" stuff.

I'm so glad LMG made a video about privacy! (esp with Google's recent AI shenanigans) I'm so pumped for this series!!

I don't think you spent enough time on *how* to switch Email. i.e. How do you import your contacts, how do you redirect all emails going to your old address to your new address, etc.

@dudo626

13 күн бұрын

You should be smart enough to do that, right?

@shadowdragon3521

13 күн бұрын

@@dudo626 Switching browser and search is arguably easier and yet the video has sections dedicated to how to switch for those

@dudo626

13 күн бұрын

​@@shadowdragon3521 You could have just said "no".

@beepboopbeepboop190

9 күн бұрын

Re: redirecting emails... If you're using a custom domain then you just set up the domain in the new service and then change your mx records at your domain host. Basically create proton/tuta account, add domain to proton/tuta, log into your namecheap/etc domain host, update mx records, and wait for proton/tuta to confirm new values are correct. It should be maybe 20 minutes of work but probably half that if your domain host makes it obvious where your mx records are. Changing your mx records is kind of like porting your cell number to a new provider -- no one calling you cares or needs to know whether you're using verizon or at&t just like no one needs to know if you're using google or proton or whatever for your email, the mx records direct the inbound email to the right place. If you're not using a custom domain, go into gmail settings and look for "forwarding" and setup either forwarding to the new address or create a filter to forward specific emails. Just make sure to update your address in your accounts and notify people sending you emails so eventually most of your non-spam emails are being sent directly to your new address. I think some of us who are older take the email migration for granted because 20+ years ago many of us had 5+ email addresses and would regularly move between them when one service became good and another became bad. If that wasn't a regular thing for you, email seems like a semi-permanent and difficult thing to change. It's definitely not though.

@afnankabir2190

3 күн бұрын

​​@@beepboopbeepboop190thank you for your contribution to society

This might be the most excited I've been for a new YT series

LTT has really been a lot better recently. linus is back to actually being a great tech reviewer, i feel like trying to run LMG dustracted him a lot and quality suffered. Also the pledge to take more time on videos is def paying off in terms of quality. Keep it up LTT, id almost given up on you.

Need part 2. Just switched to Arc and I'm loving it. Also moved my email to proton!

Absolutely wild! I love the video! Finally someone well-known youtuber decided to talk about it

Whoever allowed him to do that sponsor read with his hair like that deserves a raise

@J-Peterson777

28 күн бұрын

Made me laugh too mate...

@bruce-le-smith

27 күн бұрын

finally back to classic ltt

@MootPotato

27 күн бұрын

lol i noticed that right away and then realized in the next clip his shirt and hair changed

Worth noting that if you change your OS DNS to an internet provider, you're not going to be able to connect to devices on your LAN by hostname. This is another benefit to changing your DNS forwarder on your router's DNS server instead of skipping your internal DNS server to go straight to the internet.

@Daniel15au

27 күн бұрын

Connecting to local devices by host name is usually handled by mDNS, not by regular DNS. Any domain with .local at rhe end is mDNS. mDNS uses broadcasts rather than regular DNS lookups, so it doesn't need a server.

@FaySmash

27 күн бұрын

I useva MacroDroid Task to toggle DoH depending on the connect WLAN SSID

@ChrisWijtmans

25 күн бұрын

Whats the point of mdns. Routers should just implement ARP that doesnt suck.

Props for shouting out Ecosia! It doesn't get enough media coverage IMO...

Really looking forward to hearing all the possible options for everything

"Arc is just launching on windows 11" *launches arc website, downloads app.* "Unfortunately it does require a login." *Deletes app, closes tab, continues on happily in firefox.*

@bassenji5565

28 күн бұрын

yeah screw those services that require an account. It's already hard enough to dodge Microsoft account's creation upon installation of Windows 11...

@vasil-yt

27 күн бұрын

Don't worry, the windows version still sucks anyway. The macos version is definitely worth checking out though.

@SushiCombo

27 күн бұрын

just use a fake name with a burner email jeez.

@Tall_Order

27 күн бұрын

Plus its not open source

@Taylor_King

27 күн бұрын

@@vasil-ytyeah win version is awful. Hopefully catches up to Mac

KZread, Music, and Maps are kinda the only Google services left that I haven't pulled away from, so looking forward to Pt2.

@pitruscitrus_104

27 күн бұрын

OpenStreetMap (OsmAnd on android) is great where I live. Still turn to Google Maps every once in a while to find businesses and opening hours, but it probably covers about 90% of my needs. KZread and KZread Music are gonna be hard to ditch for me though...

@linnoff

27 күн бұрын

For music, on my android phone I use Phonograph to listen to music stored on my phone. Started using it when Play Music ended. It seems to have some issues with alphabetizing properly, but it works well for all my MP3s and supports other formats as well.

@TheW83

27 күн бұрын

OpenStreetMaps would be your google maps replacement.

@CYYB3RMISTER

27 күн бұрын

plexamp (plex) can replace spotify/youtube music but it requires ripping your own music or sailing the seas.

@Fallokoch

27 күн бұрын

Plex is a good alternative to KZread music. Only caveat is that you have to maintain the server and purchase everything you wanna listen to.

I love this! I would be interested in a little longer content or more episodes with a bit more detail

An extremely useful video and guide!! Can't wait for part two (and three?)

How many Google people do you need to wash a car? Two, one to hold the sponge and one to drive the car back and forth.

@peterparker-zy9oe

27 күн бұрын

2 google is a lot of people.....

@gabor6259

27 күн бұрын

@@peterparker-zy9oe That would be googol.

@JackWse

27 күн бұрын

But how? They shut down the sponge service.. I tried licking it but, I guess it was against the terms of service?

@bedro_0

27 күн бұрын

I don't get it lol. Is the joke that google is inefficient?

@hubertnnn

27 күн бұрын

4: You forgot the detective that is analyzing your car and the guy that will be leaving advertisement stickers in every nook and cranny he can find.

Hey! As long time watcher of LTT and one of the people behind Arc browser and Arc sync specifically, I thank you for that coverage 🙏 I also couldn't help but notice that you mentioned Arc sync being end to end encrypted (which is the case), but then in a summary table we've got a big red X in that category - possibly an oversight? If it's something else I would love to know why that is so we can improve it!

@enigma776

27 күн бұрын

It's ok I think that table is wrong anyway, he went on to say Arc will take some some time to get use to but then has a 5 star rating on ease of use.

@BeardedTaz-Official

27 күн бұрын

@@enigma776 I am thinking more like flow / usage as an individual who use default browsers like Chrome / Edge / Firefox. I just downloaded Arc, still getting used to opening tabs outside of the main window but it's all good otherwise. It's more the momentary "oh crap, where / how does this work" thing. haha

@The_Cyber_System

27 күн бұрын

What ​@BeardedTaz-Official said. I got in just a month ago and its certainly a jarring adjustment for me. It was a bit overwhelming day 1 but I'm going to give it another crack today.

Great video. Thank you to everyone involved!!!

Linus finally getting into the privacy aspects?!? Awesome!

This is one of the most important series that you've ever done! I already began being frustrated with Google services, and I'm trying to slowly replace the services I'm more dependant on! Thank you!!

@ImARealHumanPerson

27 күн бұрын

Get rid of that 16 year old Gmail.

First thing that helped me "de-google" myself was to use a third party password manager. No apple, no google, no Microsoft. The keys to my castle is stored on something I can easily use on any platform

@hpenvy1106

28 күн бұрын

Bitwarden? Bitwarden!

@ethantalbot1811

28 күн бұрын

Keepass is my go-to

@theownmages

28 күн бұрын

@@hpenvy1106 first rule of a password manager. Don't tell people what password manager you are using 🙄

@Nutrafin-3D

27 күн бұрын

Been using proton pass myself. So far so good

@HazewinDog

27 күн бұрын

Sure. I tried that, but if something happens to the third party password manager you're screwed. Now I specifically avoid doing that and just keep things locally.

Already familiar with a lot of them, but the DNS section had great advice that I hadn’t bothered with yet. Thanks for the tips; looking forward to the rest!

This is an amazing video series. I can't wait for part 2. I think a "De-Microsoft Your Life" series should be next, provided Linus can avoid breaking a Linux install for the length of a video lol

@alejandroguzmanmartin-onda6349

24 күн бұрын

*De-Microsoft your life* Step 1: Very likely quit your job

Love that you're doing this series! I hope you'll cover smartphones as well, since it is usually a bit easier to avoid getting tracked on a PC, but pretty darn hard when you're using your phone.

@BlackSun404

24 күн бұрын

Custom ROMS like e/OS/ Android! Some repairable devices (Fairphone) even ship with it. Or ShiftOS by, well, ShiftPhone, another repairable Android.

@garrettrinquest1605

20 күн бұрын

Yeah, /e/ OS is great!

Love that you're doing a series on this, please keep this sort of thing up!

TrueNAS/FreeNAS is really easy to setup and for the most basic of use-cases you can use an old laptop from like 8 years ago and be fine. My TrueNAS uses my 2013 Toshiba Satellite, replaced the old and dying HDD for an SSD, and that laptop still had a removable battery so I took that out and I'm just running it straight off the wall, so I don't ruin said battery.

Love that you threw Vivaldi up on the screen, even though all the features don't all fit in that little box in the chart. It calls that feature you showed from Arc "Tab Tiling" (which you can have vertical, horizontal, or into four squares)! It's my favorite feature for having something up on one site that needs to be input into another. There's also Tab Stacks and so, so much more.

@Posiman

9 күн бұрын

Agree. Vivaldi's tab management is utterly stellar. The integrated RSS reader made me fall in love with blogs again and the widget panel is way more useful than I ever imagined. Recently also started using the search engine shortcuts.

Aaahhhh I was going through it all since quite a while. Haven't been able to take out time fully get through it though. Kickass to see you do this. The video just came at the perfect time.

Ironically (haven’t watched the video yet) Google gave me this notification immediately

@Dynamicdrifting

28 күн бұрын

I also got a Google pixel 8 advert before this video 🤣

@josephn8036

28 күн бұрын

Lol! I'm sad to say I haven't got a notification from Linus Tech Tips in months of their latest video. Although this one came in immediately.

Finally a good LTT video. I can't wait for the next part(s)

This looks like the old garage setup! Mint af

I love ruminating in the awareness, that all of big tech is optional. We don’t have to visit these websites at all. Such an empowering thought to think that we could just not. A great alternative reality to feeling perpetual wounded by their terms of service. I especially enjoy how it flips the narrative from a collective trend down a dark timeline, towards just being an anomalous moment of mismanagement. My lack of patronage being merely a reflection of their miss managed and soon to be defunct business models. My friends are always shocked that I don’t use Amazon. It’s literally never been a problem, not even an inconvenience. I just don’t, and my life is exactly the same.

@dracula7779

27 күн бұрын

Gigabased

@prismaturtle8457

27 күн бұрын

I feel you man, I don't use Instagram or Facebook, nor do I see the reason to, making my life a lot less depressing

@sparkyenergia

27 күн бұрын

I have only ever purchased two item off of Amazon and that is because I could not find them elsewhere. Removing these scumbag companies from our lives needs to be a higher priority for all of us.

based, switch to firefox.

I love this video, so helpful! Can't wait to see the rest of the series

Great timing for this video, I’ve been de-googling 1 service at a time since the beginning of the year, all i am down to is KZread and Gmail. Next will be de-microsoft

This is your best and most informative video since way back in the day when you explained Hyperthreading to us in front of a plain background.

I've been using Brave for my browser but also startpage for search for years. I still learned things from this video though

As someone who is deep inside the apple ecosystem who uses all the apple-services, I see this as an absolute win.

Need to rewatch this every three months.

Firefox is awesome and has been waiting for you to ask it to dance for ages.

@MTGeomancer

27 күн бұрын

I switched to Firefox the second Google announced Manifest V3. I honestly don't know why people still use Chrome, it's not like Firefox is really all that different in UI/usability. Every website looks and behaves exactly the same. You can use the same extensions. When people started reporting problems with KZread and ad blockers a couple months ago, I honestly had no idea that was a thing, because I've never had any issues over here in Firefox land.

@nqvvinh7738

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, mozilla'll release native vertical tabs, tab grouping, profile switcher next year

Not sure how happy Kroger is going to be after being called "The Walmart House Brand"

Watching this on Waterfox, eagerly waiting for Part 2.

I appreciate the dramatic beginning

Really love that you are making such videos. This also helps the smaller and less used technologies and apps finally be used.

this is genuinely really helpful, I'm tech literate but not about things like this, I was worried about having to do it so this helps a lot

Brave and Firefox are my go to same with Quad 9 for added DNS protection

I'm so glad they made this video. I hope they focus on making more security and privacy videos.

Bro I was literally planning to start doing this next summer using LTT videos, actually perfect timing man

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been wanting to do this for ages now. I've googled around for this exact thing before, but as you can imagine the results are varied. I've heard of a good handful of these competitors, but seeing several on here i had never heard of was a great rabbit hole to open up and explore.

@septenaryshrub2587

27 күн бұрын

Lol you’ve googled around how to degoogle

Great video idea! I had a similar one in mind, but I don't think I could top this.

Thank you for the bottom of my heart to talk about this!

Wait until you hear about their wifi and bluetooth geofencing. You can’t even have radios installed if you want to escape their dragnet

@C4rb0neum

28 күн бұрын

Agreed! Same for Whatsapp

@midosyt

28 күн бұрын

well if you only access the internet on a computer thats using an ethernet cable I'd say youre okay (as long as the stuff on the computer is setup right too)

@maxcurrent485

27 күн бұрын

This is why everyone should support linux phones like PinePhone even if they suck right now comparatively. If security is valuable to you, it's worth investing in it just for the hope that in a year or two they will come out with one that makes everyone ditch Android and other "Spyware-OS" options.

@midosyt

27 күн бұрын

@@maxcurrent485 just use an old dumb phone

@Unknown_Genius

27 күн бұрын

@@maxcurrent485 Android is linux based as well, so technically a linux phone. That aside: It all depends on what you're doing with it, I e.g. don't want to make the switch yet until everything works properly, same as my gaming rig won't see linux until they're actually matching the experience and have full compatibility with everything at no extra steps - especially for dedicated gaming systems linux just isn't an alternative to this day for the sole reason that no privacy concern even matters if the alternative is struggling while data is being collected regardless, which leads me to believe that there won't be a day where more indie systems will become a real alternative for people that require their phone for more than just basics. But maybe, some day, I can still dream, they'll crush any competition (been on that dream for 15 years, not gonna give that dream up until the day I die).

So happy you're doing this series, Linus! Let me know if you ever want to collab on the topic, we have a whole series of de-googling videos! Love your stuff!

@PrivacyNProgramming

26 күн бұрын

Didnt expect you to be here Naomi :D

Awesome video 🎉 Can't wait for part 2

Too much to consume in one run, this video is AWESOME !!!

Love the more technical stuff you're making guys, keep up the great work! :D

love this idea of giving solid advice of how to really 'disconnect' from the absolute machine of data collection the internet has become thanks so much!

Linus - I know you read these comments lol. Thanks for making this video and I’m excited to see the rest of the series! I’ve already switched to ProtonMail on my custom domain since you uploaded this - something I’ve wanted to do for a while but couldn’t justify the cost. No way I’m letting Google train their AI/ML models on my emails!

This is the type of content i want, f** yes! Love it

Immediately after watching the video: "My pixel started overheating more than usual, weird..." The next day: Reporter: "the cause of the fire hasn't been pin pointed yet, but the proper agencies are still working on it"

I tried to leave the Apple ecosystem a couple years ago. It’s really hard, and complicated because you are tied in so many ways often really subtly but difficult to escape. Eventually gave up and stuck with Apple, but with all the current news around AI, privacy, companies stopping services randomly, subscription increases I’m thinking it’s maybe time to take back control of my data and my “cultural memories” like music and films. Thanks for this video.

Rossmann will love this series :p

Great guide guys! Thanks for the tips.