If you don’t want the NSA to spy on you, don’t use anything with a modem. Otherwise forget about it.
Please post the link to the video before we can discuss. Most of the videos are nothing but conspiracy theories.
The particular one I believe they are talking about is not conspiracy theories. Second Thought: Americans Are Being Watched (and it’s getting worse)
That’s the catch: you can’t not use Google at all if you’re online at all, because Google has managed to insert itself into every little corner of the internet.
And that’s how the surveillance trap has quietly snapped shut on all of us without most of us noticing anything.
George Orwell had it wrong: the surveillance isn’t conducted directly by a tyrannical dictatorship but subtly, indirectly by the private sector in cahoots with the government. And the date he predicted was 40 years off. Other than that, he was right: we live in a full-blown dystopia now.
A good ad-blocker goes a long way. You can block all Google domains with minimal impact to non-Google services.
DNS, most web searches, trackers in apps, location data, just to name a few. Ad blockers won’t help you there.
Using an ad-blocking DNS server solves most of those problems. Mullvad offers a public DNS server with no account required, but there are plenty of options out there.
You should still use a browser extension on top of that for pattern-based URL blocking, but a DNS-based blocker should be your first line of defense.
Maybe DNS or IP blocking, but blocking only in the browser likely won’t be helpful as apps (on basically any platform) also track users by calling assets on their domains.
By the way the CIA uses telegram to let people “securely” contact them. That’s making me believe it is definitely compromised.
Telling your contacts not to use Google nor Meta/Facebook. If everyone you email use gmail, then Google has all your emails.
