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Proton has solid privacy & security out of the box, but a few tweaks can take the safety of your account to the max: 2FA, Proton Sentinel, metadata stripping, tracker blocking, and more. Welcome to the ultimate Proton Hardening Guide! Thank you to Proton for partnering with us on this video! 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Proton Mail (Kickback): https://go.getproton.me/SH2qs • Proton Mail (Standard)...

The UK just confirmed it's doubling down on the under-16 social media ban, and VPN restrictions might be next. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans say they support social media bans for minors, and almost none of them have been told what age verification actually costs: uploading your ID to reach the same platforms that never changed. In this video I break down the UK's VPN restriction proposal,...

Your password manager is the most sensitive piece of software in your tech stack. It holds everything - your email, banking, work credentials, health records, crypto, and more. Here's how 12 of the most popular ones actually stack up. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Tier List Permalink: https://tiermaker.com/create/password-manager-tier-list-16656169 • Techlore Wiki: https://wiki.techlore.tech/ • Pr...

Apple is quietly downgrading Hide My Email...moving generated aliases to a new subdomain that makes it easy for apps and websites to detect and block anyone using a private email address. I also get into Google preparing to use your IP address for ad tracking across the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, Chrome moving to fully kill the last uBlock Origin workarounds, and a lot more! 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the e...

After years of recommending Apple Maps as a more private Google Maps alternative, that recommendation just got more complicated, because Apple Maps is getting ads. Here are three alternatives worth knowing about. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • OpenStreetMap: https://openstreetmap.org/ • Magic Earth: https://www.magicearth.com/ • Organic Maps: https://organicmaps.app/ • OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/ 🔎 REL...

End-to-end encrypted file sharing may sound simple, but for Cryptee, it took five years to ship. In this interview, Henry sits down with John Ozbay, founder and CEO of Cryptee, to talk through why: preventing CSAM, why client-side scanning doesn't work, how Cryptee's solution was designed to raise the barrier to mass spread without compromising encryption, and the broader philosophical q...

App tracking is mostly invisible, but now there's a free & open source iOS app that changes that. Loupe shows you what any app on your iPhone can quietly collect without asking for a single permission. This video walks through what it reveals, why it matters, and what you can do about it. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Loupe: https://apps.apple.com/app/loupe/id6478440557 • AdGuard: https://adgu...

Your VPN sees every site you visit, every app you use, and every search you make. Choosing the wrong one means trading your ISP's surveillance for something potentially worse. Here's our 3rd tier list of 2026! 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Techlore VPN Chart: https://vpn.techlore.tech • Tier List Permalink: https://tiermaker.com/create/techlore-vpn-tier-list-16656169 • Proton VPN (Affiliate):...

Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called "nametag" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then deleted it the day after Wired exposed it. This week I also get into Microsoft repos weaponized a second time to push credential-stealing malware to AI users, the UK's ultimatum to scan every device (and Signal's response), the FCC...

Attackers were taking over Instagram accounts by matching a target's region with a VPN, starting a password reset, and simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the account's email...that was the entire attack. It ran in the wild since at least February, compromising thousands of accounts before high-profile victims (a Barack Obama White House account, the Space Force Chief...

Bus Patrol installed AI cameras in tens of thousands of US school buses to catch drivers passing stopped buses, and now those cameras are being turned into automatic license plate readers that log every vehicle they drive past and feed the data to law enforcement. Leaked internal documents show the company knew the plan was controversial (including ICE concerns) but bet that the "protect the...

Most apps claiming to be "private and secure" are using language that sounds meaningful but commits to almost nothing. I broke this down after watching a Shark Tank segment on Qeepsake, a baby journal app that calls itself "absolutely private and secure" because it has an SSL certificate. That's the same protection every website has. This is an industry-wide playbook. Here...

Firefox now has a free built-in VPN with 50GB of bandwidth per month. In this interview, Henry sits down with Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox at Mozilla, to break down exactly how it works, what Mozilla can and can't see, the difference between Firefox VPN and Mozilla VPN, and why no other major browser is likely to follow Mozilla's lead on this. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Firefox VPN: https:/...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone ca...

Dashlane has confirmed hackers stole around 20 encrypted password vaults, and the company is being unusually quiet about how it happened. Plus the Pentagon admits US troops were tracked using commercial location data, Europe accelerates its move away from US tech, and hackers hijacked celebrity Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordab...

Your cell carrier knows your name, your location, who you called, when you called them, how long you talked, and more. What's worse, this data sits on their servers for years. VPNs and Signal help, but they don't touch the infrastructure layer. Here's what you can actually do, and how Cape is trying to change things. Thank you to Cape for partnering on this video! I just started usi...

Most people know DuckDuckGo as a search engine, but they're also creating a full privacy ecosystem covering a browser, VPN, data broker removal, and app tracking protection. In this Techlore Talks interview, Henry sits down with Peter Dolanjski, Director of Product at DuckDuckGo, to cover what Google is actually collecting, why incognito mode doesn't do what most people think, how DuckDu...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone ca...

Open source just scored a massive win against age verification laws, California is following Colorado in carving out Linux and other open source operating systems from its Digital Age Assurance Act. Plus AI cameras on school buses being repurposed for police access, a bipartisan amendment to end nationwide license plate tracking, and the open source supply chain under unprecedented attack. 🔗 SOUR...

Dumb phones cut screen time and produce less data than smartphones, but there's an under-discussed tradeoff. 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE • Become a Techlorian: https://techlore.tech/support/#/portal/signup • All Support Methods: https://techlore.tech/support/ 🔐 MORE FROM TECHLORE • Homepage & Newsletter: https://techlore.tech • Our Course, Go Incognito: https://techlore.tech/go-incognito-course/...

Microsoft not too long ago ended Windows 10 support, leaving an estimated 250 million PCs without official updates. The ZorinOS founder of the Linux distro shares the massive number of people finally choosing to leave Windows. This is a clip from our full interview with ZorinOS, Watch the complete conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbaH3vdggc 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE • Become a Techlor...

Is privacy dead in the age of AI? @NaomiBrockwellTV makes the case that doomerism gets it exactly backwards...privacy tech has never been more powerful. The fight isn't over. It's just getting interesting. This is a clip from our full interview with @NaomiBrockwellTV Watch the complete conversation here: https://youtu.be/0_hlkmpw1sk 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE • Become a Techlorian: https://tech...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone ca...

Google just announced AI agents that buy things, read your Gmail, and choose vendors on your behalf, so it's time to talk about the alternatives. This video covers 6 privacy-respecting search engines, why their business models actually work in your favor, and how to use bangs so switching never feels like a sacrifice. You don't have to quit Google cold turkey, but you should know what el...

Session has just weeks to raise $800K or it shuts down on July 8th. WhatsApp and iMessage will be just fine. Here's why that's not a coincidence and why it's a problem bigger than Session. Donate to Session: https://session.org/donate 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE • Become a Techlorian: https://techlore.tech/support/#/portal/signup • All Support Methods: https://techlore.tech/support/ 🔐 MORE...