ShadowRebel

I’ve posted videos before on “Why Monero”, but this one takes a step back and asks Why Privacy in general. We’ve flashed the Monero logo 3 times throughout the video, especially on the part that says “unconditional wealth”.

How does this video benefit you?

It’s full of great examples and arguments you can use in convincing friends about Monero and the harm of invasive Big Tech. Just using freedom tech yourself is not enough, you have to get the people you’re talking to, or interacting with to accept Monero, use encrypted messengers, ect.

Also this subtle soft-sells Monero by flashing the logo a few times to pique interest, but without bashing people over the head with it. https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-privacy/

I appeared on the Monero Talk podcast, to discuss the new Session bot software Simplified Privacy has been creating. This would allow for the uncensored distribution of content, even under the harshest conditions such as an outright Monero ban.

See the instance setup yourself, by sending a message on Session to the ID: “MoneroTalk”

One word, without quotes. You can download session at getsession.org. As well as the other instance we have setup, at "Simple"

It’s a very long podcast, but I start at 1 hour 17 minutes in, https://www.monerotalk.live/digital-privacy-w-simplified-privacy-monero-price-report-news-more-epi-152

And I see the posts here about Nostr, I’m a fan of that too. This compliments Nostr perfectly. As Nostr is weaker censorship, but easier to spread on the clearweb.

Monero Feather Wallet Tutorial

Q: What are the advantages of Feather?

A: -Send your transactions over Tor, I2P, or a Proxy -Fast download sync for a daily driver -Easily manage nodes from a great list -Simple interface, it looks similar to Electrum Bitcoin wallet -Paid for by the open source Monero crowdfunding community

Here’s the Feather tutorial video: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/feather/

I'm making educational content OFF youtube/google. Even if you already know this information, this video is useful to send to a beginner you want to talk with.

XMPP is considered the gold standard of encrypted messengers by both cybersecurity academics and black market criminals, but because its just decentralized code with no clear corporation behind it, there is a lack of a marketing budget or educational materials.

Why use XMPP? Because it’s fast and efficient for use with Tor. It’s easy to host your own server and because it’s fully decentralized, there is no official client for corrupt governments to ban from app stores. This client flexibility gives both users and developers the freedom to participate in the system with a variety of different features. However, different clients work on different operating systems.

This video gives a broad overview of XMPP Clients for beginners: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/xmppclients/

In today’s episode, we discuss how to avoid being de-anonymized on Tor. Excellent episode for beginners covering the Linux distributions Whonix and Tails, the different types of virtual machines such as Oracle Virtbox, QEMU KVM, Xen/Qubes, and setting up your own Tor entrance. And the video is partially animated to make the concepts easy. Enjoy: http://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/tor/

Monero's home is right now on Matrix. I'm disputing that. This is a video follow-up with some of the replies from last time.

If you are new, XMPP and Matrix are two competing federated end-to-end encrypted messengers. XMPP is far better, on server cost decentralization, speed over Tor, degoogled push notifications, multi-identities, and overall privacy. So if Matrix is inferior centralized bloatware, why is it more popular? Especially among XMR techies, who should in theory understand these concepts.

This brand new video gives a quick overview of the technical reasons that XMPP is the gold standard king of federation. And it briefly discusses how Matrix manages to push it’s agenda: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/xmpp-vs-matrix-why-matrix-sucks/

Some critics will say that “Matrix is a complete package, while XMPP is fragmented”. This is essentially propaganda, because all the XMPP clients interact (Dino, Gajim, conversations, monocles). The only one that doesn’t interact is OTR encryption from pidgin which provides an alternative for hardcore cypherpunks who want to destroy the encryption keys when the conversation is done. So because one single client has an alternative use case, the Matrix cheerleaders want us to fill out Google Captcha spyware to register on Matrix.org because it costs so much to self-host.

Here's a very brief overview of some of the Monero Wallets with a quick pro/con of each. Including the official wallet, Cake, MyMonero, and Feather. Now with some of them, assumptions are made about your use of them (light vs full wallets), for example MyMonero being a lighter wallet and the trade-offs involved with this convenience. Enjoy and thanks for your time: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/monero-wallets-which-is-right-for-you/

From internal leaks within the company as well as external analysis, the tip of the iceberg behind Facebook's spyware empire is exposed. Take a look to better protect yourself when you're not even on the platform: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/facebooks-corrupt-off-platform-surveillance/

Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it's "end to end encrypted", but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers.
Send this video to your friend that asks why you won't join: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/

Telegram is adopted widely by the “crypto community”. But Monero should not be apart of this, as it’s a centralized platform doing zero metadata protection and only encrypted on mobile. Here’s an excellent video you can send your friends who request you to message them on there: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/

Using Monero on a device with a spyware operating system defeats the point. Let's learn the basics of rejecting Google's surveillance and some different alternative Android operating systems: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/what-is-a-degoogled-phone/