Also, here's a good Github de-bloat tool with instructions on how to use it:
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

User suggested.

If you are wanting to switch over to Linux, but feel like it's intimidating to you or feel like you're not tech-savy to make the change...

Then follow this guy:
https://t.me/jeffrey_peterson

And join his community group:
https://t.me/jptchat

Jeffrey Peterson created one of the largest social media platforms. He's incredibly computer savvy, but unlike the other guys in the tech world, he can speak to you in layman terms. And so can the other geeks in his group.

JP is very anti-spying and now devotes his energy into helping ordinary non-computer-savvy people feel comfortable using Linux. For free. Step by step. He even does regular calls to inspire motivation in you to prioritize it.

There are 70+ year old users in his chat now confidently using Linux because of JP.

To the other researchers out there: This is family friendly grandma-approved tech redpilling "for normies." So send it to whoever needs it.

Pay it forward!

The following VPN's are compromised.
These products were bought by an Israeli run company called Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider).

This company is run by a nefarious Israeli felon with ties to Malware, hacking, Israeli intelligence, and selling private data. Their company is slowly buying all the top VPN review websites and changes their articles to say that your privacy is not safe with their competitors, and put Express VPN and their other products at the top of the review lists.

If you use any of these VPN's. Get rid of them ASAP.

https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/

Consider using Proton VPN or Mullvad VPN with Wireguard. The best VPN is going to be one you make yourself though.

"KAPE TECHNOLOGIES (Formerly called Crossrider) operated by Teddy Sagi - an Israeli billionaire co-founder of the CROSSRIDER Malware Company (also listed in the PANAMA Papers) and Koby Menachemi who has associations with the Israeli equivalent of the NSA or GCHQ: Unit 8200, that works out of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)."

"Israeli run Kape Technologies, which formerly distributed malware that infected computers world-wide, has now acquired four different VPN services (which allegedly protect companies’ online privacy) ... Israeli felon Teddy Sagi and Koby Menachemi (connected to Israel’s notorious cyber espionage Unit 8200) are behind the company…"

Determine what type (and data) a barcode represents:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idautomation.decoder&pcampaignid=pcampaignidMKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1

Generate that barcode:
https://barcode.tec-it.com/en/Code128

Uses:
- Recreate your ID for companies that only care about scanning.
- Cheat companies with weird tricks and loopholes.
- Recreate gift cards to give to multiple people.
- Borrow a card like a gym membership card, take a photo of it, duplicate it, and then return the original card.
- Use for contests, or sending short hidden messages to a friend.
- Easy way to copy numbers digitally via picture.
- Organize things in your house under a system. AKA Scan a box and know what's in it by checking your personal inventory system.
etc.

— Video downloaders update —

Twitter videos: https://twittervid.com/
• Choose the video quality.
• Then click the copy URL icon. This will open the video.
• Right-click the video, and choose "Copy Link Address".
• To upload to an app like Telegram without downloading, click the open-file paperclip icon of an app, paste the video URL there, remove everything after .MP4 in the file name (i.e. .mp4?tag=12), and then press enter. It will upload directly to Telegram.
[See demonstration video below]

Youtube videos: https://ddownr.com/
• Choose the quality of the video.
• Right click Download and click "Copy Link Address"
• Paste that into any file upload bar as mentioned above to directly upload the video.

Rumble videos: https://rumbledownloader.com/

Bitchute videos: https://www.videotosave.com/bitchute-video-downloader/

Tik Tok videos: https://ssstik.io/en
• This can remove Tik Tok watermarks from videos for free.

Reddit videos: https://rapidsave.com/

Pinterest videos: https://pinterestvideo.com/

Facebook videos: Replace www. in the URL with mbasic. (mobile viewing), then click the video to view the video file source directly on your browser.
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Quick Access:
When these websites are open. I recommend that you highlight the URL, then click and drag it into your bookmark bar, and rename it to something really short. i.e. "Twitter ↓" for quick access.

"Why doesn't it work for me?"
If you click the video download and it opens file explorer, or this trick does not work. Right-click the video hyperlink or download button and copy that URL, and use that instead. If it still does not work. You will need to use a URL shortener because for some reason the file explorer is better at grabbing from shorter URL's.

Paste your incredibly long and ugly video source URL into one of these two websites:
https://bitly.ws/
https://www.urlday.com/
(These ones because they're free and don't require an account)

Then paste the shortened URL into the open-file-explorer on whatever app you're trying to upload to, i.e. Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, etc. And it will work. If you cannot copy the download button's URL. Find a different website using this search on DuckDuckGo or Yandex Search, "Download SITENAME videos online free".

As always, always check strange new URL's on a website like "https://wheregoes.com/" first to make sure it goes directly to that website, and doesn't pass through any sketchy domains first.

And if you use any of these free sites enough. Please consider donating like $5 to them. These people are eating immense server costs purely as an act of free community service. They can really use a $5-10 bump once every once in awhile from each of us as a thank you for their contribution to the internet.
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Permanently archive or view later deleted and scrubbed Twitter / X posts by storing them on the blockchain:
https://resee.it/

On multiple occasions I was able to find and view a video that was completely deleted from Twitter and entirely unavailable on other archives, by using this archive.

Websites, links, article from the show:

- Brave Browse (highly recommend syncing the browser across your devices if you use bookmarks to help you research)
https://brave.com/

- Keep Word, Notepad or similar open for quick copy/pastes and not keeping

- Twitter/X (use the Notifications, Lists, Bookmarks, and Advanced Search functions)
- Qwant
- Freespoke
- Yandex
- Archive.today
- Archive.org
- Wikipedia
- Courtlistener.com
- pacer.uscourts.gov/
- SourceWatch.org
- https://www.1stheadlines.com/ (news aggregator)
- Justice.gov
- Treasury.gov
- OCCRP.org
- https://inteltechniques.com/ (for more tools)


For image searches:

- https://tineye.com/
- Brave extension for image search (provides tineye, Google, bing, and ya sec search options when you right click a photo) https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/search-by-image/


Image analysis
- https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/#forensic-magnifier (Forensically)


Screen capture
-Lightshot https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html

Article from the final hour of the show

-Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
https://archive.is/IOt3l

Critical thinking tips:

- Be skeptical of all news, especially the news you like or already believe
- What is the source of the information?
- What is the source's source?
- How credible is that source?
- What biases might the source have?
- What is the context?
- How much information is being conveyed here? What facts?
- How much emotional language is being used?
- What is the framing of this information?
- What is the source directing the reader or viewer to conclude?
- Cross reference it. Are any other credible sources reporting the same or similar?
- Be willing to question your own beliefs and compare what you KNOW to what you BELIEVE.
- Consider opposing views, contradictory evidence, and alternative explanations.
- Assign a weight or measure of credibility to the information based on all of this. Be willing to disregard news you like or want to be true as well as willing to believe news you do not like or do not want to be true.

Adblock test:
https://canyoublockit.com/

Research "Pi-Hole" for a good DNS server ad-blocking function for your home network:
https://pi-hole.net/

Best de-googled privacy Android phone Operating System:
GrapheneOS on a compatible Google Pixel phone.
https://grapheneos.org/features (List of features)

How to install Graphene OS:
https://grapheneos.org/install/web (Official source)
https://youtu.be/qruzL9IdUr8 (Helpful Tutorial)

Best tutorials for GrapheneOS:
https://www.youtube.com/@sideofburritos/videos

For downloading apps I recommend the RSS method. He mentions this in his videos. Keep multiple user-profiles. Keep the owner profile as empty as possible.

Official forum to get help and search for queries:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/

Search "Camera sliders" to discover camera sliders for your front phone-camera. These might work better than electrical tape for people that intend to use their cameras for various tasks. As the glue makes the camera blurry until it's wiped off. To make them last long, avoid keeping them in direct sunlight or in a hot car. It will break-down the adhesive and they won't last as long.

For blocking the back camera, you want to glue scratch-proof MICROFIBER cloth (like what eye doctors provide with glasses), to a bendy silicone case. When you want to take a picture, just bend the case. If you use paper or anything else, it will over time, act like sand-paper and scratch away the lens of your camera until all photos are blurry.

Phone cases with built-in screen protectors like Otterbox, are junk. Do not buy them. They get filled with dust very quickly, are hard to clean, and if they get damaged requires you to replace the entire case instead of a cheap gorilla glass cover.

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Google Maps wrapped:
https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/

Google Maps alternative:
https://www.magicearth.com/

When you take a photo you secretly include information about things such as your location hidden within your photos.

This app automatically removes that data when you share from it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif/

(GrapheneOS camera has this function built in by default)

Gray Jay lets you watch Youtube, Rumble, Odyssey, Patreon, Kick, Twitch, etc. Without a membership. It has great privacy and functions the way a person with common sense would want things to be coded.

I used it to turn Youtube, Rumble, and Odyssey into a single app without ads:
https://grayjay.app/#sources