wecanhelp

Removing due to rule #8.

Please post this in the current concern thread until there's a more suitable place for it. Thank you.


A personal comment on the content of your post: Epic Privacy Browser is not fully open-source , and as such, not a responsible recommendation as a privacy-conscious browser. The Tor Browser Bundle , with its Security settings set to Medium-High, is a better choice and you might want to look into that. For what it's worth, the background sticky from the sidebar already links to an article on best practices for safety and privacy online. It's a pretty good one, but it might indeed need a little more visibility.

arrggg

Yeah, dick move hiding this shit from the noobs. No shit the browser isn't TOR, its fucking simple and easy to download shit with, and not scary for noobs.

Make that hidden security note a sticky today if you really are not trying to fuck people over.

wecanhelp

Subverses on Voat can only ever have a single sticky at a time. I don't think the security article will ever be the single most important thing we want to hoist to the top, but I agree it should be more visible. I suggest you bring that up in the concern thread.

However, I do not agree with your assessment of Epic Privacy Browser's safety. Certain code sections being hidden from the public is always a red flag, and for all you know, the project might be a honeypot. You know nothing about the proxy servers it uses either. Staying safe online is not easy, and with anything else that is not easy, there is no substitute for educating yourself. I will argue that an easy-to-use privacy-conscious solution will do more harm than good. It will recreate the "incognito window" effect in that noobs will assume they're safe while in reality online safety is a much more complex problem than that, and technically you aren't even entirely safe behind a private VPN and a Tor circuit, combined. If you really want to push an easy-to-use, privacy-conscious browser, at least make it Brave . It is also Chromium-based, it is entirely open-source , and it is recommended by privacytools.io .

arrggg

Whatever. Your deletion of a relevant security discussion is bullshit.

This post described a way to protect your youtube account and easily download videos, nothing more.

If you fucking read it it clearly said that it was for people that couldn't understand actual security. It's for normal youtubers.

wecanhelp

Again, your recommended browser offers no such security that can be responsibly recommended to anybody, let alone laypeople.

But I want to reiterate that your submission was not deleted on these grounds. It violated a predefined checklist of rules all submissions must adhere to. The checklist has been defined by the community. I have pointed you to the right place for a submission like this. I can't help you any further with this.

arrggg

Post a security sticky thread then before more people fuck up their youtube accounts.

Otherwise you look like a fucking dick.

wecanhelp

We've rearranged the sidebar, and added the security article as a link, as part of a visible warning.

wecanhelp

Please read again what I said about that.

arrggg

Another option for backing up controversial videos from youtube is Yout.com. It will download video's and even specified time segments of a video to your hard drive, without any plugins or installs. This would be another easy way to start backing up the Where is Eric Braverman series, for example.