Exciting stuff, here’s another video we’ve been working on. This week we’re talking about easy steps to increase your privacy & security. Have you or someone you know been putting off taking their privacy and security seriously?
This video dives into 5 essential areas that everyone should implement to achieve a baseline level of privacy and security. We tried to make it as easy and accessible as possible so that everyone can follow along.
As always, your feedback and thoughts are much appreciated. I’ve taken on board feedback from the last video, and I think you’ll find the audio levels much better in this video.
It would be great, if a video like this (“5 easy steps…”) had a short summary of said steps in the description or as chapter headings or something.
For example
Use email aliases
Always use Https
…
Privacy is such a broad topic and without watching the video there seems to be no easy way to know more specificly what the topics are and if there might be info that’s useful for me. Personally I only have time to watch youtube on weekends and add stuff to my watchlist throughout the week. Without knowing what is mentioned/discussed in this video, it has a much lower chance to end up on my watchlist since I don’t need yet another video suggesting me (to stay with the example from above) to use https and email aliases.
Also, if this is intended (for example to get more people to watch the full video) that’s fine for me.
I haven’t seen the video yet, so there’s no feedback regarding the content for now, but I’ll make sure to get back to you when I had the time to watch it.
I hope this comes of as constructive criticism, at least it is intended that way, since I really enjoyed the way the other two videos are made.
Somewhat off topic
Thank you for your work jordan, I really think it’s important to try to reach the broader masses through mainstream media and you’re doing a fantastic job at that. Keep up the great work!
While we definitely want to have all sorts of videos for everyone, I am anticipating most of them will be more like the types of videos someone already in our community like you will want to share with a friend or family member, rather than watch yourself
The timestamps are a good catch though, we should’ve been on that. I’ll ping @jordan to look at adding those
Yeah I know I’m not the target audience but sometimes I watch these type of “beginner” videos, to get better at explaining privacy to other people or to get recommendations for people with a different threat model than me.
Thank you for the feedback, I’ve added in chapters to each section of the video. Hopefully this makes it easier to navigate! We will definitely be adding chapter sections for future videos.
There is so much potential (as perfect as this video and the following ones I’m sure are going to be) for video essays on privacy and security. You have done and been showing a stupendous job at making them.
The next evolution of videos from PG/Jordan I am envisioning and hoping for are more investigatively showing all the bad and poor sides of big tech and their piss poor products from a UI, UX, privacy, and security POV. These would be a little long form 15-25 minutes exposing through proper exposition like some of the veteran YouTubers like Veritasium and Johnny Harris and the old VSauce.
Anyways - it’s just my wishlist and hope for getting to next level production of PG videos.
yeah this is why I initially suggest voluntarily translation and voice acting, because of the lack of this feature.
And yeah I am not saying no to subtitles better than nothing, on a voluntary basis though we probably have to have the script or otherwise listening in may be fine but then it’s also where sometimes youtube auto generated captions often gets some things wrong, maybe it’s accurate on TTS not sure. But also above what I said I guess.
oh you’re right apologies.
I haven’t delve into this for a while I guess and I’m more remembering what Tom Scott did thinking it’s accessible (I guess my brain works in mysterious ways).
Yeah then subtitles is viable if that’s ok.
Amazing work @jordan, I really like the subtle mentions of why joining an unbiased privacy community is so powerful, and the headlines that flash by to quickly reinforce the storytelling that this isn’t doomerism speak (though less people are under this spell recently).
All of these steps were really easy and approachable (aside from the unfortunate initial brute force password changing one first has to do when moving to a password manager, but not much you can do and that is likely the most important).
I actually just watch them like someone attending church. We’re all reading the same thing over and over again and just nodding our heads and raising our hands and saying “Use that password manager! AMEN!”
In all seriousness, sending this one to a stubborn family member who only uses it when they have to access shared family passwords that I refuse to let people send over SMS…though in theory now I guess we could share them over Signal…but I’m gonna just omit that fact.
I see you added quite the languages indeed, Hopefully international community comes forward, will try and let you know.
Edit: I’ll have it done by tomorrow, I’ll be having it as a draft atm I’ll leave to for later
We decided to adopt AI translations for the videos last week. This is because the videos generally have a lower threatmodel so this is why having small errors here and there are not that serious, the written articles like the protestors guide and the general recommendations are a lot more critical, and therefore AI translations are not used there.
