Unless your data is in 2 physical locations, then it's not secure. That's the biggest issue for anyone hosting their own data storage cloud. If your backups are in your house and you have a house fire then you just lost the originals AND the backups.
I don't trust Google with jack. A few years ago I realized Google goes through my email and reads my receipts while just looking around Google account settings. I immediately set up my own email hosting after that.
@@SifatUllah-12 I moved my email to protonmail, I use Kubuntu on my computer as the only system. I installed Lineage OS on my phone but I'm thinking about using Ubuntu touch. I am not using Google or MS cloud drives. They read your mail, they watch your files, they spy your pc and mobile. Just don't use anything Google or Microsoft
@@GamingPenguinEnthusiast Google is on every website, You're there now. They are getting your info no matter what yoiu think. You web browser tells all (I run Fedora :) ) Lineage OS, have you had issues? I have a one plus one7t and it always acted funny great phone but it uses that same OS. Emails I'd suggest highly to get your own domain. Just because you pay and they say it's safe, it's not. remember Apple's iPhone? They will cave.
I would honestly say that Google is an unethical company, which is ironic because this is RUclips, which is jus as unethically sourced/served as the remainder of Google!
Good video TOM, and I agree don't store all your data in one spot online, or offline, as over the weekend I was writing some data to my external 4TB USB 3 HDD, then my power flashed out during the write, and corrupted all the data on the drive with the only way to make the drive usable again was to go into GNOME disk, and reformat it to ext4 but thankfully I had the most important data bout about 500GB worth copied another 1TB HDD as my crap hit the fan backup, so I was able to restore it last night using my USB 3.0 HDD caddy, and the rest was just random ISO files I can always download again if I ever need them. Always back up your most important data at least twice if possible folks!!!
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Yeah that's the ideal solution, but not everyone has the option for an offline offsite backup which is why I said at least 2 offline copies, and I'll add with at least one of those that you can grab, and go in an emergency that's easy to access like an external HDD, SSD, burned DVD/Blu-Ray disc, or some sort of rugged USB flash drive solution with high read/write endurance. Also unless I'm using it I have a spare laptop, spare KaiOS Flip phone, and/or tablet, ready to grab, and go as part of my bug out stash as I live just a few hours from the beach here on the east coast, as I've been through my fair share of hurricanes, tropical storms, ice storms, etc.. being along a major evacuation route in my 43 years of being alive.
That really isn't a legit question. All companies do steal. You go online, it's all taken, linux, windows, bsd don't matter (Proud Fedora User here). I do not use any of their cloud, well wait... I do use sync for my extensions if that counts. I'mma findish the video now brother. I appreciate you. 1000% agree on the emails, I only use gmail as a spam folder. I don't use drive. I have domains, that I use for my emails. My brother here is 100% right on that Like most of the time.
To me, you don't sound like you are thinking about this in the correct way. You can never fully stop leaking data onto the Internet but what you can do is disable location tracking around you (by de-Googling all Android devices) and then open up multiple identities for yourself (with multiple web browsers) and do parts of your day-to-day stuff across them all - so that no single identity reveals all that you are doing. You have to put in time and effort to get it all in place, and discipline yourself to keep using it that way, but it pays off. I still have a Gmail account that I have had for 20 years but it's the only service I use on that identity and I've been moving my important emails, like banking and financial stuff, to a Posteo account for a long time now.
keep it as an ''official'', ''public'' email. in order to contact the state, companies, universities etc. after all, they are all one body and soul with google and they already know everything ...but keep another email for strictly personal use and sensitive personal data. in my opinion, emerging mandatory biometric recognition will be much much worse that the privacy issues in cloud services...
If you don't start, you'll never finish. Buy your own domain and use a reputable and well established email provider, then gradually change every account you receive emails from. Once you are done, in the future you will be able to switch provider very easily, should you need to.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 If you touch any website Google gets your stuff information. I'm sorry to break that news, but web browsers tell all. It don't matter what you use. Google is on Every website, (ads) remember. For email I highly though do suggest likeyou getting your own domain and such, I do that, I do have gmail as a burner (my old original one) never used drive personally.
I irony of all the "I use nothing Google" and are literally on Google's baby trying to get paid from them. Hey I am too, nothing wrong with it. Also, I'm referring to the Comments Not the video. Thank you for the info brother!
Speaking of Cloud... What apps can you advice (if any) that can copy specific folders/files to your USB as soon as it's connected or as the files are changed? Like, similar to Google Drive but local.
You don't necessarily need an app to do this if you can do a bit of work at the command line. I've often thought about doing a similar thing (and I may still do it) where, in my environment, I have multiple Linux PCs connected to a server with all my files on it and I'd like to plug in a specific USB stick or USB drive into any of those machines and have it backup the latest versions of some files on my servers. I am certain you can do this with udev rules such that when a specific named (by partition) device is plugged in, a particular script is run automatically from udev. If you have the capability to write simple scripts, then do a search for "udev rules" and you should get some help there.
PS. You might be able to do something with Syncthing which I was also using for general sync until recently when it just wouldn't scale well for larger numbers of machines, so I got rid of it. You need to check the documentation to see if it can do "backup on device plugin" though.
14:20 Google also refused to reinstate the account even after the police exonerated the dad...
I just came to say "no I don't"
I am sacrificing my privacy for ease of use & I hate that.
We will never get laws blocking data collection, mostly because govs are the first to collect everything as possible
Unless your data is in 2 physical locations, then it's not secure. That's the biggest issue for anyone hosting their own data storage cloud. If your backups are in your house and you have a house fire then you just lost the originals AND the backups.
To paraphrase Ford Prefect from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "I trust Google as far as I could comfortably spit out a rat".
I don't trust Google with jack. A few years ago I realized Google goes through my email and reads my receipts while just looking around Google account settings. I immediately set up my own email hosting after that.
I stopped using Google for a serch engine years ago.
I'm always on the lookout for ways to rid it from my life.
Me trusting google with my digital life?! Hell no! I don't even trust microsoft with my digital life.
3-2-1 strategies are still valid, I do it like that and had no issues so far.
Also, a NAS is no backup by itself either.
Can't even keep their own precious algorithm safe, please trust them with all your private data
My Smarphone with Android is a Backdoor...
" Hell NO..."
I wouldn't trust google with my toilet.
They would take your anal print...
I am trying to de-google and de-microsoft my life
Awesome~!
How exactly? Please share your knowledge, I'm trying too.
@@SifatUllah-12 I moved my email to protonmail, I use Kubuntu on my computer as the only system. I installed Lineage OS on my phone but I'm thinking about using Ubuntu touch. I am not using Google or MS cloud drives. They read your mail, they watch your files, they spy your pc and mobile. Just don't use anything Google or Microsoft
@@GamingPenguinEnthusiast Google is on every website, You're there now. They are getting your info no matter what yoiu think. You web browser tells all (I run Fedora :) ) Lineage OS, have you had issues? I have a one plus one7t and it always acted funny great phone but it uses that same OS.
Emails I'd suggest highly to get your own domain. Just because you pay and they say it's safe, it's not. remember Apple's iPhone? They will cave.
I would honestly say that Google is an unethical company, which is ironic because this is RUclips, which is jus as unethically sourced/served as the remainder of Google!
you tube is one of googles biggest money makers for sure. you are right onthat.
Great video
Good video TOM, and I agree don't store all your data in one spot online, or offline, as over the weekend I was writing some data to my external 4TB USB 3 HDD, then my power flashed out during the write, and corrupted all the data on the drive with the only way to make the drive usable again was to go into GNOME disk, and reformat it to ext4 but thankfully I had the most important data bout about 500GB worth copied another 1TB HDD as my crap hit the fan backup, so I was able to restore it last night using my USB 3.0 HDD caddy, and the rest was just random ISO files I can always download again if I ever need them. Always back up your most important data at least twice if possible folks!!!
The old "3-2-1" rule applies here - 3 copies of data on 2 types of media with 1 stored off site.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Yeah that's the ideal solution, but not everyone has the option for an offline offsite backup which is why I said at least 2 offline copies, and I'll add with at least one of those that you can grab, and go in an emergency that's easy to access like an external HDD, SSD, burned DVD/Blu-Ray disc, or some sort of rugged USB flash drive solution with high read/write endurance.
Also unless I'm using it I have a spare laptop, spare KaiOS Flip phone, and/or tablet, ready to grab, and go as part of my bug out stash as I live just a few hours from the beach here on the east coast, as I've been through my fair share of hurricanes, tropical storms, ice storms, etc.. being along a major evacuation route in my 43 years of being alive.
Trusting Google with my life, is equivalent to trusting Google to not spy on me whilst I use the restroom, and to that, I say hell no
You Tube? Internet? They crawl everything, lol.
That really isn't a legit question. All companies do steal. You go online, it's all taken, linux, windows, bsd don't matter (Proud Fedora User here).
I do not use any of their cloud, well wait... I do use sync for my extensions if that counts. I'mma findish the video now brother. I appreciate you.
1000% agree on the emails, I only use gmail as a spam folder. I don't use drive. I have domains, that I use for my emails. My brother here is 100% right on that Like most of the time.
Quick answer to the video's title - NO.
No, but I haven’t been able to commit to pulling myself away from them.
The email I’ve had for over 20 years is just hard to leave
To me, you don't sound like you are thinking about this in the correct way.
You can never fully stop leaking data onto the Internet but what you can do is disable location tracking around you (by de-Googling all Android devices) and then open up multiple identities for yourself (with multiple web browsers) and do parts of your day-to-day stuff across them all - so that no single identity reveals all that you are doing.
You have to put in time and effort to get it all in place, and discipline yourself to keep using it that way, but it pays off.
I still have a Gmail account that I have had for 20 years but it's the only service I use on that identity and I've been moving my important emails, like banking and financial stuff, to a Posteo account for a long time now.
keep it as an ''official'', ''public'' email. in order to contact the state, companies, universities etc. after all, they are all one body and soul with google and they already know everything ...but keep another email for strictly personal use and sensitive personal data. in my opinion, emerging mandatory biometric recognition will be much much worse that the privacy issues in cloud services...
@@user-gu7wy3qj9x I’m pretty sure neither the state or companies have a soul lol
But your idea is good 😀
If you don't start, you'll never finish.
Buy your own domain and use a reputable and well established email provider, then gradually change every account you receive emails from.
Once you are done, in the future you will be able to switch provider very easily, should you need to.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 If you touch any website Google gets your stuff information. I'm sorry to break that news, but web browsers tell all. It don't matter what you use. Google is on Every website, (ads) remember.
For email I highly though do suggest likeyou getting your own domain and such, I do that, I do have gmail as a burner (my old original one) never used drive personally.
How about no.
I irony of all the "I use nothing Google" and are literally on Google's baby trying to get paid from them.
Hey I am too, nothing wrong with it. Also, I'm referring to the Comments Not the video.
Thank you for the info brother!
Nope!
Speaking of Cloud... What apps can you advice (if any) that can copy specific folders/files to your USB as soon as it's connected or as the files are changed? Like, similar to Google Drive but local.
You don't necessarily need an app to do this if you can do a bit of work at the command line. I've often thought about doing a similar thing (and I may still do it) where, in my environment, I have multiple Linux PCs connected to a server with all my files on it and I'd like to plug in a specific USB stick or USB drive into any of those machines and have it backup the latest versions of some files on my servers.
I am certain you can do this with udev rules such that when a specific named (by partition) device is plugged in, a particular script is run automatically from udev. If you have the capability to write simple scripts, then do a search for "udev rules" and you should get some help there.
PS. You might be able to do something with Syncthing which I was also using for general sync until recently when it just wouldn't scale well for larger numbers of machines, so I got rid of it. You need to check the documentation to see if it can do "backup on device plugin" though.
Good content lately... not that it was bad before. Just sayin'. 👍
Thanks. We have been working on more scripting and bringing up the production value.