Yeah, it’s still in use. It’s still slow. I think the real take away is that if you’re going to do things that are going to get you in true State trouble tor is not a reasonable solution.

If you’re not doing something to draw the ire of a government agency, It’s reasonably safe. Other than they fact that you are passing tor data, no one in your house or your ISP or Google has any idea what you’re actually doing.

I think one of the big problems is that there’s not so many tor nodes that a well-funded agency couldn’t stand up enough nodes to catch your entire conversation.

Putting a video file somewhere and letting 10,000 people watch it at the same time is no small feat.

You could probably get away with doing it on peer tube but it has no facilities to lock people out or make them pay.

Even if you don’t use patreon for payments payments aren’t free.

I just use down sub to pull the transcript from his video It’s only 60% as annoying.

He has the normal privacy versus cost worries which are reasonably valid. Then he rambles on, plugs a product that he’s shilling that’s unrelated to the subject matter, says he’s replacing Google search with a local LLM, does some hot takes on alternatives, does some reasonable takes on some alternatives.

To be honest, this is probably the least helpful de-googling video I’ve seen, other than the fact that he’s a major influencer and is telling everyone they should be doing it.

You remember when LastPass had a massive leak and it out of their production source code which demonstrated that their encryption security was horrible? That was a Plex vulnerability. All it takes is a zero day and one of the packages they’re using and you’re a prime target for ransomware.

You can see from the number of unauthenticated processes in their security backlog that security really has been an afterthought.

Unless you’re running in a non-privileged container with read only media, I definitely would not put that out on the open network.