Your privacy & security questions answered! (Late September '24)

Going to do our best to answer privacy, security, digital rights, and personal questions for all of you for September 2024, a few days late so streaming in October....but pay no mind—it's the september stream. Patrons & Techlorians will have priority on the thread: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/q-a-livestream-your-privacy-security-questions-answered-september-24/10184 🔐 Our Website: https://techlore.tech 🕵 Go Incognito Course - to learn about privacy: https://techlore.tech/goincognito 🏫 Techlore Coaching - to get direct support: https://techlore.tech/coaching 💻 Techlore Forum - to connect with other advocates: https://discuss.techlore.tech 🦣 Mastodon - to stay updated: https://social.lol/@techlore We cannot provide our content without our Patrons, huge thanks to: BRIGHTSIDE, Clark, Ente, Larry, Afonso, Boori, Brad, Casper, Cookie, Floyd, JohnnyO, kevin, love your content, NotSure, Poaclu, x 🧡 Join them on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/techlore 💚 To see our production gear, privacy tools we use, and other affiliates: https://techlore.tech/affiliates 💖 All Techlore Support Methods: https://techlore.tech/support 0:00 Intro 1:35 Linux 9.9 vulnerability discussion 7:46 Windows Recall Updates 13:20 Telegram now shares user data on legal requests 20:32 Mozilla remove uBlock Origin Lite 26:00 Our thoughts on Zen browser 29:21 Q&A Questions & Anouncements 30:30 Are we planning to review SimpleX Chat? 36:11 Where should you use SMS 2FA, even if it’s a privacy risk? 41:29 What is a good budgeting app, that respects your privacy? 44:49 What are good arguments to get others on private messaging apps? 48:32 Is it more fingerprint-able to use multiple redundant DNS servers? 53:08 How did you start giving suggestions for privacy & security? 56:14 Why are fediverse platforms not catching up to mainstream platforms? 1:08:58 What our favourite Apple products to ever release? 1:15:37 How can you create privacy advocacy content like music or art without it being corny? 1:18:50 Why don’t you recommend Linux Mint or Zorin OS? 1:24:10 What are your favourite choices for a Linux distribution? 1:26:50 What’s your opinion on MKBHD’s Panels wallpaper app? 1:36:53 How do you know if your privacy protections are too overkill? 1:40:36 What is the best way to support open-source projects privately? 1:50:20 What happened with the Techlore Nextcloud series? 1:51:00 Do you have any privacy focused health app recommendations? 1:52:53 What’s your opinion on Vivaldi browser? 1:56:15 What is stopping someone controlling a lot of nodes on the Tor network? 1:58:06 What do you look for in an ISP - is there a difference between them? 2:01:30 Why is the ProtonVPN app on F-Droid different to the Aurora Store version? 2:03:14 YouTube livestream Q&A questions 2:03:23 Have you tried the PineTime smartwatch from Pine64? 2:05:04 Is it bad for privacy to register to vote? 2:08:07 What are your thoughts on Google Pixel products? 2:09:35 Is an Apple TV a decent option for streaming content? 2:12:46 Discussion about Henry’s interview with Jonathan Steele & real world privacy 2:15:44 Stream Outro