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?
The dumbfuck YouTuber who pretended to be an engineer loves Teslas? Amazing. On the nose.
Also, don’t get your privacy advice from YouTube. A horrible idea.
techlore?
Naomi Brockwell?
not so “horrible”, i think
isn’t techlore the one who said iphones are better for privacy than even linux computers? 🤣
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 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.
Wasn’t aware of him pretending to be an engineer haha. I would argue it varies greatly on YouTube, just like it varies coming from other sources: all with a healthy dose of skepticism. Rob’s content may be valuable to me, as it tends to raise awareness on subjects which other channels won’t address, or only address when it finally receives mainstream coverage. These channels typically don’t provide anything new to me, but given the number of subscribers to these channels, there’s quite some people that do seem to actively engage with the content; and may therefore be influenced by it, which is primarily why I gauge the content periodically.