Without Naomi KZread would be a horrendous experience.

My biggest struggle with such things is to convince my girls that the extra bit of work/inconvenience is worth it. While they see the problem of having to give up privacy, they also have difficulty dealing with the alternatives.

Great information as ever Naomi. I'm glad I don't stream music (I listen to records and CDs) and only read physical books but I do listen to podcasts. There's always something to be careful about when using it. Thank you once again.

we need Miss Brockwell and Snowden as advisors in an OS and Hardware please . that would rock 💎

I don't own a cell phone, landline or even my own computer, I just click on these videos cause Naomi is so gorgeous & adorable. She does have good info to protect ourselves digitally from the dystopian narcissistic data suckers.

Thank you for the recommendations! Just downloaded AntennaPod.

Great information Naomi! Awesome.

Thanks! Just what I was looking for.

Great advice. Subscribed! I'm betting there's more where this came from.

Thanks for the lesson!! greetings from Fiji

Beeun using Musicolet and AntennaPod on Android for a while and very happy with them. No-nonsense goodness! ;-)

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

I don't know about musicolet, I'll take a look!

@jacQues1024

11 ай бұрын

@@NaomiBrockwellTV It's an off-line music player. I still buy physical media.

The thing that puts people off messing with phones is what if something goes wrong. If it was a simple case of installing Graphene, most would do it. What stops them is not knowing if it will work and the things in place to stop you bricking a £1000 phone. Then there is how to restore it if it doesn't work. That's the biggest barrier.

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

for sure, the risk of bricking your phone if you follow the instructions closely is minimal, and graphene does a great job making the process super simple. We also offer consultations to walk people through the instal with them if someone is unsure

@Bond2025

11 ай бұрын

@@NaomiBrockwellTV I will have a look at this right now. I am aware of just what goes on with tracking, everyone is at it now. youtube even started flagging videos to get people to present a credit card and avoid censorship - really it was to tie a valuable profile with real name/address to sell. I also see how many people are caught using VPN and Tor, everything from clicking a link to a web bug to grabify type links. The Tor side of things is bad with traffic staining to identify traffic going in to the network and finding where it exits. I love your series of hard hitting but easy to understand videos.

@ReubenYap

11 ай бұрын

The process has improved a lot since!

@therealb888

11 ай бұрын

@@NaomiBrockwellTV I agree graphene makes the process very easy. The crucial bit we are missing here is *RELYING ON GOS ALONE IS NOT A GOOD LONG TERM SOLUTION* We're putting all our (everyone!'s) eggs in *one* basket of GOS & google pixels. We need awareness about not just unlocking bootloaders but having locked bootloaders & verified boot with custom roms. We can't rely on one brand of phones forever. Gaming laptops lacked mux switches, but after youtubers like you brought awareness, they're much more common. We need pixel's hardware & firmware security features & vendor update standards on more phones. We need youtubers like you to raise awareness among your peers & consumers to ask for secure elements like Titan M2 & verified bootloaders with custom roms which make it possible to have graphene os on more phones.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

11 ай бұрын

Yeah some people are wimps

Thank you for the info 😊

Naomi Brockwell, Rob Broxman and the hated one the best sources of knowledge about data privacy. Thank you all for your essential contribution for our freedom and privacy.

@michaela5311

11 ай бұрын

Indeed although would add Michael Bazzell to the list. I’m sure there are also some others fighting the good fight. EFF do a great service

@lussor1

11 ай бұрын

Who is the hated one?

Whenever I watch one of Naomi's videos, I'm reminded of what a good choice it was to not have a smartphone.

@invisableobserver

11 ай бұрын

I agree

Love Your Content and just started reading the ebook well done

@NaomiBrockwellTV

5 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

@S10394

5 ай бұрын

@NaomiBrockwellTV I am enjoying it alot one of the best books I have ever read as its on a topic that interests me ♥

@S10394

5 ай бұрын

I have a Xiaomi phone as my secondary phone what privacy os can I install on it (Redmi Note 10)

Such great enlightenment 🎊👍

Useful information

Ty for this! Just got a NAS and the video subject is just in time, as always, great video😊

I use my own Emby server for my music and movies. Its a smart idea to use a home NAS server. Jellyfin is even more prived but I have Emby all ready installed so...

Thank you for providing some alternatives to apps that insist on gather my perosnal information they have no business having.

That sucks about Spotify, thanks for the info =)

Hey Nay. I love your videos. Whilst I find it difficult to action all of your recommendations I do what I can. I had a question/a video idea for you. What are the things one should do to maximise (I know they'll still get a lot of info regardless) privacy within the ios and Android systems when one first gets a new phone. For example your wifi and hotspot video was eye-opening. Something like that once done can't be undone. Thank you for your content!!!

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

Great idea for a show, how to many your stock device as private as possible in the settings. I'll have a think!

@lihtan

6 ай бұрын

@@NaomiBrockwellTV One thing I did with my old phone to make it more private, with it's default OS, was to install a software firewall. I found that it actually made the phone a bit quicker, since it was cutting out a lot of the background network activity.

Naomi, great episode as usual. Could you possibly do an episode about KZread alternatives?

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

Actually that's the next one in our graphene series! 3 weeks, it's already scheduled for release

I watch this channel on my phone, I guess that's essential use 😎

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

😂

What about library apps for audiobook checkout? I already download the book 📕 from wifi while stationary (while at the library) so the app does suck up my data on my cell plan. Is there a privacy book app libraries use that don’t track your data back to BigBrother?

Hi there, please make a tutorial video about deeper network gedget and how to conect it wirelessly to our wireless router.thnx

I only listen to music from community radio stations via the app here in Australia.

I downloaded the Overcast app, but the adding the URLs method doesn’t seem to work. Should this be done on another device?

I hope you make a video about how to fight against robocalls or scamcalls

@therealb888

11 ай бұрын

This! I had asked about it ages ago. I think she has done videos on how these scammers get your number and protecting privacy and other whitelisting approaches but we still lack an identification & blacklisting approach.

Excellent content Naomi. Why can't we download apps from websites specifically. Why playstore/Apple at all?????

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

Apple doesn't allow sideloading, and it's complicated for graphene -- although downloading the APK is indeed possible for graphene, it means you have to handle the updates for every app manually.

Yesterday I read call of duty mobile permissions: your id, mail, History web browsing, watch all you network devices.... cmon its too much

@mrcvry

11 ай бұрын

The chinese gov owns cod, discord, tictoc and more. They just want data.

@therealb888

11 ай бұрын

Welcome to privacy blind spots!. People turn a blind eye to gaming not realising it's one of the most privacy invasive industries.

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

all governments want data 😓

I am intellectually attracted to you, Naomi. Thank you for providing such great contents!

Pocket Casts ❤️

A question - what if you want to hang on to your Audible subscription, but avoid using the app? I back up all my audio books by removing the DRM, and can easily dump them to my phone, and use whatever player I want. I figure Amazon will still collect whatever data they can, but that should at least limit it to whatever books I buy.

@rogercroft3218

11 ай бұрын

What do you use to zap the DRM on audiobooks?

@GrackAlaciN

11 ай бұрын

@@rogercroft3218 AAX Audio Converter.

PeerTube + NewPipe is the goat

I downloaded the Audible app to my GrapheneOS phone, logged in, downloaded my entire library, then disabled all permissions to the app. It's not a perfect solution, but I paid for those books, so I want them available to me.

Ooh funkwhale sounds like an interesting solution to another problem might have to look into that

Naomi what's your phone to go? Pixel with geaphine? Iphone?

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

I use both iphone, graphene, and android, for different things. Graphene is increasingly my daily driver

@PyCoder82

11 ай бұрын

​@@NaomiBrockwellTVThanks. Pixel it is then. :)

How good / bad is Plex? (Being what I use for music & movies)

Do you have an opinion about Louis Rossman’s video regarding the main developer of GrapheneOS? There seems to be evidence that this person is somewhat obsessive compulsive in a way that is aggressive towards online users, and may even indicate a tendency to be paranoid in a way that could subvert the stated goal of the operating system.

#OSINT.

👍🏻

Overcast immediately jumped on the bandwagon and removed Alex Jones’ podcast from the feed, although the podcast was still included in the feed they were using. I won’t support or endorse anyone supportive of squashing free speech and “cancel culture”. I don’t even like Jones, but I do like the values established by our founding fathers.

HI, Can you talk about Adguard ?

@zekiz774

11 ай бұрын

You're basically sending all your traffic through another DNS server

@I9I7

11 ай бұрын

@@zekiz774 oh, I see, Adguard dns should I trust?Or I choose quad9 dns

@SuperWolfkin

11 ай бұрын

So you're talking about a privacy-based DNS server I'm sure there must be videos of that. Actually the server she would likely recommend would be quad 9 kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2aGzMSvfai5XZM.html

Latest Android now blocks F-Droid from being installed, calling it a malicious application! I tried it a few minutes ago.

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

Have you thought about using graphene?

@Bond2025

11 ай бұрын

@@NaomiBrockwellTV Absolutely, I am going to have a look at the tutorial. Can it go on a Samsung S22...

@ReubenYap

11 ай бұрын

​@@Bond2025only Pixel devices unfortunately

After seeing Rossmann’s interactions with the dev of Graphene im convinced you’d be safer with googles spyware.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. If it comes from one of these companies, they're definitely snooping on you and know EVERYTHING about you.

11:55 a great thing about bandcamp though is that you get the store Integration but you can still buy (not just rent) music, as you get an actual music file if you download it, not just a cache locked to some specific app. What this allows you is to e. G. buy music and play it in another player 😁

@SuperWolfkin

11 ай бұрын

All of this is true and I've spent a lot of money on band camp. For that reason. My only gripe with band camp is there's no way to do it with the app. I have to go on the website to get files so that I can then move into my app. So the other day I was driving and I wanted to download a band camp album to put into my music player on my phone and I had to load the website on my phone. I had to go into desktop version on my phone. Scroll down on my phone, download the file and then extract it and put it in my music folder. It's a minor inconvenience for me, but it really kind of kills the integrative aspect that would be there if I could just hit download and it would give me an option of download to get to the cash or download as an actual file

I wish I was smart enough to ha ve crypto. Thank you.

I am in need of a new phone but keep putting it off as I don't know which would be the easiest to de-google or have de-googled. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

@ReubenYap

11 ай бұрын

Imo, a Pixel device with GrapheneOS is one of the easiest and the best. It's good enough to be a daily driver.

@therealb888

11 ай бұрын

​@@ReubenYapIf your country has pixels in the first place.

@zekiz774

11 ай бұрын

Pixel is the easiest by far. It's kinda ironic that Google devices are the easiest to degoogle

@SuperWolfkin

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm just going to chime in and also say pixel phones would be the easiest phones to do that with. If you want to give us your country we can see if there are other phones that are exclusive or alternatives that you need. But yeah

@therealb888

11 ай бұрын

@@zekiz774 We don't appreciate how much Google does for foss & hence privacy. AOSP on which Graphene is based is developed by google. Without it, we won't even have a chance to fight for privacy. You'll be left to accept closed source bootloaders, baseband firmware, etc like you do now.

Privacy or not, Bandcamp pays artists the best. I asked my favorite indie artist about it and that was the response I got. He's been producing content solo longer than I've been alive. So you could buy something on there and it's on your computer for your use forever. I even got a refund on something, they had no way to revoke it. In case anyone's interested in supporting artists and has a lower threat model.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

11 ай бұрын

RAP IS CRAP

@NaomiBrockwellTV

3 ай бұрын

That's a great point

I use adblockers, I don't care about my data

I'm not tech savvy but what about the old style of flip phones. Can the still spy on you besides location?

@1Three8Fiver

11 ай бұрын

Very real possibility the hardware in these devices is old and in most cases not still maintained with firmware/driver updates. So all the exploits that are known and have been rectified in later revisions, updates as companies moved away from them still leave you vulnerable. There are still swathes of the planet dependent on such devices and so there is still going to be a large enough contingent of malicious actors with enough interest to do so. Smartphones are not the problem, it is the stock software that is provided on them and the privileged system access they have. As Naomi recommends GrapheneOS completely unplugs your device from their tendrils and from an initial install if kept that way for the same purposes you'd use a flip phone actually provides a massive privacy and security benefit to a user in comparison.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

11 ай бұрын

FLIPS are Flops

@invisableobserver

11 ай бұрын

"Basic" flip phones are much safer than flip phones that have internet, wifi & bluetooth, though unfortunately cell towers were manipulated to not send a signal to basic phones in the past few years. Yet some of those flip phones caused more cancer tumors than some smart phones, All cell phones are tracking & depopulation devices that enslave the weak minded to be addicted to them. I won't own one & do not allow them near my property.

1st to comment :)

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

🥰

Dont know how invasive it is cause dont listen to podcasts...

Waffle

naomi, how long have you been living as a female ?

Since you require me to save my credit card information, I will not be donating.

@NaomiBrockwellTV

11 ай бұрын

I don't require anything, the payment processors do. But that's why I also accept cryptocurrency

My Samsung phone will not allow the installation of F Droid. In the US we live under circumstances worse than Communism.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

11 ай бұрын

Waaaah