Comments by "Terry Daktyllus" (@terrydaktyllus1320) on "REVEALED! Your Secret Power Over Google" video.

Critical thinking is an extremely good way of fighting back against poor training.
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Next time you take your wife into a room full of people, ask her if she'd hand you her purse so that you can shout out bank account numbers, credit card numbers, date of birth, name, address and any other personal information that you find in there. I am sure she will quickly reveal that she does has "things to hide", just like we all do.
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That may be the case if you run a Windows or Mac OS but if you install Linux on the PC and follow Rob's guidance on browser segregation and multiple identities then you can remain very private. For me personally, warranties are not worth the money beyond the usual 12 months you get with any new device (at least where I am in Europe anyway). Within 18 months the value of the hardware has dropped by 90% and because I've been building and repairing computers for many years now, I just fix it myself at that point if it goes wrong.
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So why are you here on one of those services and not practicing what you are preaching? I, on the other hand, have an "open power" (there's nothing "secret" about it given Rob talks about it in just about every one of his videos) where I use those services in a controlled manner that denies any useful personal data being handed back to the service provider as a payment.
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In my experience, modern computer science degree people tend to know a lot about Excel macros but not a lot else - unlike in my day when we were taught such topics as assembly language programming on Z80 CPUs.
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Ubuntu Linux would take you 20 minutes to install and start using. Go to a laptop recycler, pick up a refurbished laptop for a couple of hundred dollars and stick Ubuntu on that - you can sit there learning it without affecting anything else you currently use, then just move fully to it when you are ready.
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Books to read or to colour in?
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No. A de-Googled phone is as invisible to Google as your home PC should be when you don't use Google on that. A Google Android phone is the "link" that kills your privacy - if you log into the same Google account on your phone and PC, then the two are linked and both become surveillance devices.
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Personally, I wouldn't trust containers because a software bug might allow data leakage between containers. Separate browsers that keep their histories and cookies in entirely different locations is far more isolated.
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@JNoMooreNumbers I have no idea what "LGB" or "Anti Tman stuff" means. I am in Europe and not in the USA, so that might offer some kind of explanation. I do know what LGBTQ+ means but as a white heterosexual male, it's not something I get involved in - albeit I have no issue with those who do.
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@JNoMooreNumbers Yes, but if your comment is THAT coded then that explains why it makes zero sense to me. If it's any consolation, a lot of my posts get deleted - mainly because the stupid algorithm seems to mistake me for a "bad actor" when I use certain words in comments when I give cyber-security advice to others as one of the "good guys" in cyber-security.
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@JNoMooreNumbers You may not even see this comment ever because if I use that word that rhymes with "tracker" used to describe a bad person that breaks into computers, the stupid algorithm usually deletes that. And if I mention "the world's number one online auction site" too.
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@linsqopiring6816 It depends what your threat model is. I am Europe, not the USA, and given that I a law-abiding citizen, I consider evil corporations to be a far bigger threat to me than government or law enforcement agencies - especially as a registered voter with access to free healthcare and social support, the government already has a lot of my personal information anyway. I assume you're in the USA - in which case are you also registered to vote? Because then your government has your personal information anyway, and if you're not registered to vote then how do you ever partake in changing a snooping government anyway?
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@linsqopiring6816 If you run Linux, what information are they associating to you from that PC? It's not like a Google Android phone or iPhone that leaks your IMEI number or phone number, both of which are unique to you. The only equivalent on a PC is a registration key for Windows or Mac - and if you use that rubbish then that's your problem.
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@thestreamreader I think you underestimate the amount of data storage that they have available to them - and some strong algorithms that know how to filter out rubbish before logging it anyway.
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So just "create more noise" rather that just "staying a lot quieter" yourself with the privacy techniques that Rob teaches you here? I'm not convinced, I'm afraid to say.
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You do realise that under right-wing Fascism in Germany in the 1930's, they were censoring books by burning them. From where I sit on the political spectrum (as a centrist), I hold both the extreme left and right to account when it comes to the ability to enforce censorship. Let's not pretend that it's just a leftist Communist thing.
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Erm, quack?
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No, they follow you and everyone else that does nothing but write words here.
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@jamesready5 I call "bullsh*t" on you. I think it's your real name. No matter. Discussion closed.
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 @jamesready5 Because, in your case, it looks like a real name. Could you not have worked that out for yourself?
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@jamesready5 No, absolutely not. Do you not get the "intentional pun"? "Pterodactyl"?
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@thestreamreader I've no idea what you're talking about. "Just words".
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Sure, you've done good things to protect your privacy? But how come you're using what appears to be your real name as your identity here? Using a pseudonym is "Privacy 101", one of the first things that Rob teaches you.
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You can't ping most Internet routers - they're designed to drop ICMP packets as a defence again DDoS attacks. I am most worried about people like you spreading FUD because you don't know what you're talking about in the first place.
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An iPhone uses you.
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@linsqopiring6816 "The threats from google are much easier to mitigate." Probably, and by my threat model they are the priority to focus on. "That's why Rob can give such powerful and simple advice on it." Yes, and I will always vouch for his advice being very sound. Unfortunately, too many people here think that watching videos is good enough, they don't get that you have to do the hard work yourself. "The government has much more power, for reasons such as you yourself gave about knowing your info from many different databases it has on its citizens." Accepted, but the alternative is being an off-grid troglodyte in a cave, and I don't want be that. Like I said, I don't plan on breaking any laws and I can just do my best to "run silent, run deep" on the Internet. As I have very little social media presence on the web and several identities, that will hide me to a degree from both evil corporations and government entities anyway. "And add to that the type of tools such as revealed by Snowden." True, but as a cyber-security professional anyway, I only run Linux, *BSD and de-Googled Android across all of my systems - that alone defeats quite a bit of tracking, especially as government agencies have outsourced a lot of their monitoring activities to these same companies anyway. But I am not blase about it either. "Government makes google look easy." Sure, and I do have stuff to hide like every private citizen does - but I'm still a law abiding citizen and don't think I'm a major target for government. I subscribe to "The Gazelle Theory" - if you are one of the gazelle in the herd being hunted by a pack of hungry lions, you don't have to be the fastest gazelle; just make sure that when you look over your shoulder that there is at least one slower gazelle behind you and that will be good enough.
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