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PrivacyTubers driving Tesla cars
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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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's a very lazy follow-up to quite a broad claim. Please do provide evidence.
I've been following their content pretty closely, and I do not recall anything of that sort. They did recommend iPhone over stock Android, which is accurate.
So until you can produce a source to that claim, I call horseshit.
i stopped following him after he said it.
i'm not about to go digging into years of his stuff just so you don't have to.
Not how this works, mate, but you do you.
thankfully i don't see anything in the rules that say i have to source every inane comment i make here to appease your fondness of a specific youtuber.
The rules of rational discourse are centuries old. But if you need them spelled out once more, here they are: If you claim shit, you back it up with evidence. If you can't or find weird excuses why you shouldn't have to, people will legitimately call you out on making shit up.
Case in point: I think you made a case for torturing fluffy little ducklings with red-hot pokers in the past. You're a bad person for doing so. I can't find a source right now that proves you did it, but I'm sure it's somewhere in your post history. So unless you prove you didn't say that (which is impossible, btw), I expect you and everyone else here to accept my claim as true.
k, guess the reddit people arrived.
and even if you do give them a source, they just reject it because it doesn't come from a propaganda mouthpiece.
seriously. i'm not about to dig through years of a channel that posts daily so i can appease some rando on the internet on an inconsequential topic.
sealioning must be the bane of social media
Also you didn't even say that Techlore definitely 100% said that, you asked "isn’t techlore the one who said iphones are better for privacy than even linux computers?" and the redditor could answer "He didn't you are remembering it wrong/Yeah he is the one who said that/I don't know"
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.
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.
Even Braxman isn't too bad if you can separate the information from his product advertisements and his... personality.
Don't forget The Hated One.
i haven't heard of the hated one before. I tried to watch this ☞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AynIIFM2WU but i couldn't get past the "it was i... i said... i was first
3 minutes already and no information.
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.