I understand what he does is only his preference but why does he not recommend using Mullvad anywhere in his books or podcasts and completely shills “Proton” for everything as if it’s the best source for everything privacy related.

In his book “Extreme Privacy” he also talks about using Cloudflare due to their no-logging policy for your DNS resolver.

“We will collect limited DNS query data that is sent to our 1.1.1.1 resolver. Our 1.1.1.1 resolver service does not log personal information, and the bulk of the limited non-personally identifiable query data is only stored for 25 hours.”

https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

I just feel like something isn’t adding up, somewhere.

  • privacybro@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    151·
    8 months ago

    i wish people would stop viewing this guy as someone who is a guru extreme online privacy.

    Bazzell is good at one thing primarily, and that is Real Life privacy/hiding, when one’s adversaries on nongovernmental. that is his specialty and what he should be respected for.

    Bazzell is not a huge expert in thwarting mass surveillance or thwarting nation-state adversaries in technology. otherwise he wouldnt be giving recommendations that involve closed sourced software or cloudflare lol.

    He is a practical guy and knows enough to keep his clientele’s privacy for the types of adversaries he is accustomed to going up against (not nation state or federal gov)

    • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
      4·
      8 months ago

      Agreed! I tend to see what he can offer on regards to privacy for real life stuff like home address, data broker scrubbing (his extensive lists I mean), etc. But when it comes to the technology portion of it, I go with what I prefer, albiet I still hear what he has to say in case he introduces me to something I didn’t know about before.

  • stifle867@programming.dev
    1·
    8 months ago

    I would recommend to find advice that works for you from a variety of different sources. Never really on just one person as a source of truth. I’m not familiar with this person and they probably have a lot of good advice but nobody is perfect and everyone is different so you are sure to find things you disagree with. The good thing is you have the right mindset to actually dig a bit deeper and understand things for yourself, like the CloudFlare “no logs” policy.