I'm installing Graphene OS this Monday!
from Goldenring@lemmy.ca to privacy@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 04:40
https://lemmy.ca/post/61034884

I have WhatsApp for work now. I asked my boss to re-invite me to the chat this Monday.

I’m watching the tutorial now. Is Rumble an alternative to YouTube?

#privacy

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64bithero@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 04:55 next collapse

Stay away from Rumble. It’s a politically right focused mess with no more privacy offered. You want to avoid YouTube id suggest peer tube.

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:14 next collapse

Oh, yeah. I noticed the comments are wild.

Muhammadsodiq@lemmy.org on 28 Feb 04:29 collapse

What about Odysee?

Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Feb 07:41 collapse

Same problem pretty sure.

j4k3@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 05:00 next collapse

F-Droid > Pipe Pipe

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:15 collapse

Thank you! I noted it! 😆

artyom@piefed.social on 27 Feb 05:16 next collapse

They shouldn’t have to reinvite you.

Rumble is just an alt-right YT. It’s nearly entirely conservative propaganda. That’s it’s primary purpose.

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:17 next collapse

I thought Rumble was going to be an alternative platform. After visiting there, my mind changed. I’ll stay away from them. So, I have pipe pipe and peertube to install 😆

artyom@piefed.social on 27 Feb 05:20 next collapse

Yep. I like GrayJay because you can get a dozen video, music and podcast platforms in 1 app (pick and choose).

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:23 collapse

I’ll look up grayjay!

hanrahan@slrpnk.net on 28 Feb 02:23 collapse

FYI Newpipe as an app can connect to YT and Peertube

Add the Newpipe repo to FDroid and get it from their repo , not the FDroid repo

No logging in to YT

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 28 Feb 08:24 next collapse

Yeah I don’t like logging in 😭

Pissed@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 08:51 collapse

I use pipepipe it seems to break less than newpipe.

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:22 collapse

But they are scheduling my work time on the app. I didn’t want. They forced me to install the app.

AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social on 27 Feb 05:21 collapse

Rumble is pretty bad. There’s not very many good alternatives to YouTube, but if you at least want a more privacy-preserving mobile app frontend for it, I’d recommend NewPipe or GrayJay (which, if you really want it, also supports Rumble, among very much lesser used federated alternatives like Peertube.)

I wouldn’t recommend alternative decentralized video hosting platforms like Odysee either, as they are also very much heavily focused on conspiracy theories and random BS political topics with no merit. Kick funds destructive gambling behaviors and also funds fascists, so don’t use them either.

If you’re willing to pay, and your main priority is just deGoogling over specifically maximizing privacy as much as possible, you could pay for a Nebula subscription. They’ve got a lot of the creators you might be used to seeing on YouTube, with all their content on YouTube also on Nebula, along with some Nebula exclusive stuff. Normally it’s 60 bucks a year, but I believe if you use creator codes from the sponsor reads creators will do on YouTube, you can get it for about $30-$36. Imo it’s a pretty reasonable price if you just don’t want to have to deal with YouTube. (and it is also supported by the GrayJay app)

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:28 next collapse

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I agree that Rumble isn’t the best option. I haven’t been there for years and I didn’t know the website was so bad. For alternatives, thank you for recommending NewPipe or GrayJay for a more privacy-focused platform. I’ll try them this Monday after installing graphene OS! I can’t wait for my full control. Also I’ll support Fdroid developers!

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:39 collapse

I have a question. Is Lemmy app available on Obtainium but not on Fdroid?

AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social on 27 Feb 05:49 collapse

Depends on which Lemmy app you want. Here’s the ones on F-Droid, and for Obtainium you should be able to get all of those, plus any Lemmy app that only has a code repo but isn’t published elsewhere.

Keep in mind that F-Droid is only gonna have things that are free and open source, with minimal to no tracking or external dependencies outside their primary use case. Apps that are normally paid or have a lot of trackers probably won’t be on there.

If you find something only available on the Google Play Store, either use sandboxed play services (does give Google some information, like your IP address, knowledge of which apps you have installed, and could potentially exfiltrate data if an app is configured to send the data to Google Play Services), or Aurora Store (just a frontend for the Play Store, Google doesn’t really get much info about you from that as long as you pick the Anonymous option when “signing in”, but you have the added risk that the Aurora Store developers could theoretically tamper with app code)

You should always try to find apps available in this order, based on their chance of having code tampered at any point, and privacy concerns: Obtainium > F-Droid > Aurora Store > Sandboxed Play Store

Goldenring@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 05:53 collapse

Thank you very much for the useful info!! I hope graphene team will unveil its first smart phone with GrapheneOS this year! If that can happen’ I’ll happily ditch my pixel phone. Also, I won’t give a single permission to gain any dat from me from Monday. I’m going to full degoogle. I use an iPhone now but I know their privacy is slightly better than stock android and bad than graphene OS for privacy.