Something on the first question that bothers me a bit, which I know Henry and Nathan frequently touch on, is this - you should never think about privacy and security in a monolithic manner. As in, you either get it or you don't. It's not a black or white thing, it's a gradient, a scale. You will often see this popping up in the most common dismissals of security and privacy that tons of people use. Like, "My smartphone already knows everything I do, so...", "I'm already forced to use a WIndows PC at work, so...", "Apple already gets all the data they want from me so..." or the infamous "I have nothing to hide". In this case it was "I assume Windows is already collecting my browsing data". Way more subtle, but worth thinking about. People constantly assume that everything they do is being collected anyways, so why should they care, but reality is that you still have a lot of scrutiny on these companies. And yes, they might be collecting everything and we have no way of knowing because of closed source code and whatnot, but it's just more likely that they will only collect stuff that will justify the cost of collecting it - be it in technical terms, or in product image terms. So, looking at it as a monolith is the wrong way to see things. The better way is threat modeling, putting things on a scale to measure stuff like convenience vs privacy and security, or usefulness vs privacy and security, and by knowing that even if you are forced to use something that breaches your security, privacy or trust, doesn't mean you need to add more to pile if you can prevent it. It's like, the more measures you take to secure your stuff and maintain privacy, the less chances of your data being breached or abused. You will never get perfect privacy and security, and hopefully also not complete lack of privacy and security - everyone is somewhere in the middle. And also, of course, the way different people or companies will use or exploit what they got from you can be very different. Sometimes the only interest is really for advertisement and telemetry only. It remains internal, which you shouldn't feel comfortable with, but it's less damaging. Sometimes they'll sell it to the highest bidder. Sometimes they'll actively exploit it for scams and criminals schemes. And so, with that in mind, and no real control over, all you can do is take whatever steps you can to protect yourself. Specifically about the case though... I'm not sure if it's true Windows collects your browsing data regardless of which browser you use. This is more likely to happen with Edge because that's a browser integrated to Windows. Other browsers can have embedded ways of mitigating data collection by the OS, if that's a point of worry. And then there's what the guys are talking about - take time to review settings. I know that it's hard to believe messing with settings in apps and software you already don't trust seems like a waste of time, and there were certainly times that people proved that switching toggles and disabling stuff effectively did nothing - but again, these companies are under constant scrutiny, and the security and privacy community have devised ways of detecting when these companies are blatantly lying. So it's worth spending a little time on it because it might just work, even if you don't really trust the company to do it properly. At the very least, your name could get into some class action lawsuit for you to get a few bucks from. xD Yeah, I know...

I read the thumbnail as “should you edge” 💀

If you keep up this format i think the channel will take off

Lorex does local recording only on a NVR/DVR and allows you access to your video without uploading to the cloud through smart phone apps. It's what I'm running.

Ecobee keep going in this direction

Not yet.

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@EncryptedEagle if you want a outdoor camera there is the question what have you there (W-LAN/LAN? power connection? zigbee network?) for what usecase want you the camera general? Want you that your camera is connected with motion detector and ai to scan for human and cars? Or want only a video with surveillance for the police what is uploaded automatic to a cloud? The thing is if you want something with ai there is no hope for a phone solution without sending it to the cameras production software server. But you can make it semiautomated with motion detection without ai but it scans animals too so its not realy good. For an allround version i would you consider the smart outdoor camera from Netatmo its looks more like a lamp and it is not crying hi im a camera for the thiefs ^^ If you have a NAS like Synology you can make an autoupload to a cloud so if it get stohlen you have your Data anyway. But Synology is realy bad if you want to use it as Plexmedia hometheater because for this you need an Intel Chipset but Synology comes most with AMD for Energy Reasons and if you want a death silent System like with only M.2 there is no real option by Synology :( (i mean there is but i dont want to pay thausends of dollars for hardware wo is 90% cheaper without Synology Branding what i cant use in Synology for Reasons ...)

You can't opt out from Edge telemetry and it comes with a lot of bloatware you have to disable+emptyy new tab extension

I read it as should you edge 😭

Edge = Chrome AKA Chromium .. Good day sirs.

You guys spend 3mins 10 sek talking about legislation that MAYBE will be implemented IN SOME LOCATIONS, that has been standard practice for more than 10years in EU. I'm so sorry you have to deal with that suff. Living in the USA seems to be a complete nightmare if you care about your personal data. :( But tik-tok is the danger right? LMAO

Hypocrisy all the time. Android does not allow you to uninstall chrome and even google search bar. Apple does not allow you to use a non webkit browser at all. However, nobody seems to complain about it, but when it comes to microsoft, hey microsoft how dare you.