WEBVTT - A new tool to protect your email privacy 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.719 Samsung sets a date for us to see some new 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.160 foldable phones. Duck Duck Go has a new way to 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:21.840 protect your email. Should Netflix show emergency alerts? Plus your 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.360 tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.120 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.640 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.360 It's also the place where I answer the questions you 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.440 send me. Once again, my name is Rich Demiro, tech 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.640 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Well, I 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.519 think the last time I talked to you, I was 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.320 back at work. I'm actually doing the podcast for the 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.840 first time in over a year and a half back 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.760 at the KTLA studio, so that is a major, major difference. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.680 Ah feels good. The main reason it feels so good 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.680 is because my studio here is much more climate controlled 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:09.039 than my foul what's the word foucs faux faux fox studio, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.880 my faux studio at home. So it's nice to be home, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.240 but it's kind of nice to be here, although the 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.080 time I'm doing this much earlier. If you're listening on 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.840 on the Facebook Audio rooms, which welcome to everyone listening 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.760 on the Facebook Audio rooms, you you are awesome for 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.679 tuning in. It's such a cool thing. I'm I'm not kidding. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.920 I am so enamored with this Facebook audio rooms. And 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.880 the reason why is because I've got my following on Facebook, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.720 which I think last count there's like eight hundred and 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:48.120 twenty six thousand of you. So awesome for that, and 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.720 so i can put a Facebook room on there and 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.280 you can listen in while I'm doing this live, and 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.560 then of course it goes out as a podcast. Now, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.200 the big goal eventually, and I'm still you know, trying 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.120 to work this out with but the big goal is 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.760 to do a TV show. And that's kind of like 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.320 what would be the ideal situation with live callers and 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.560 everything would be produced and it would just be so 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.720 much better. So that's eventually what the goal is. I'm 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.640 still working on it. I mean, look, baby steps. We 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.760 just got back into the studio, so and you know 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.560 in Los Angeles things are still pretty tight here, you know, 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.680 with the masks and the you know, all the different 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.880 rules and stuff. So I'm just working my way through 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.280 all this. But the big thing this week, of course, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.119 Jeff Bezos went into space. It was such a sight 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.080 to see and it's just when I watched something like that. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.680 You know, I grew up with the whole space race 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.880 and well, maybe not grew up with it, but you know, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.080 space is a big part of my life. You know, 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.240 space is such a fascinating topic for someone like myself 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.600 that covers technology because when you really think about it, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.360 when you think about the fact that we've gone to 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.440 outer space over the years, back in the day, like 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.120 I'm talking the sixties, like, how in the world did 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.720 these people figure this stuff out? I mean, we're very 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.399 cutting edge at this point. We have high tech computers 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.960 and all kinds of rockets and ships and whatever. But 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.240 back in the sixties, to go to space was a 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.799 whole different world. I mean, the technology that they had 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.160 was very different. And so anyway, watching Jeff Bezos go 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.440 into space with three other folks, you had the richest 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.079 man in the world, the oldest person in the world 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.000 who also happened to be a woman, and then the 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.440 youngest person in the world, and then of course Jeff 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.600 Bezos's brother. I mean, what an interesting crew right to 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.320 go up there and experience that. I read something where 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.680 the woman that went up was kind of like not 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.160 that impressed with the view because she was like, well, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.080 it was cool, but it wasn't like the whole earth, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.760 which I mean, what are you gonna do? You know, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.720 maybe there's another ride. But the fact that we now 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.400 have people going up every people I'm and these are 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.400 not typical people, but I mean I guess they are. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.880 In the case of the young guy, he was like 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.400 eighteen or nineteen. I mean, these are pretty much every 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.280 day people. They didn't train like astronauts. In fact, there's 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.160 some debate over whether we should even call them astronauts. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.760 But no matter what, they have forged a path that 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.400 is just you can't you can't close it up. That's it. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.159 It's like it has been unlocked. We saw Sir Richard 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.320 Branson go into outer space, and now I have the 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.200 I was telling my kids this. I have now spoken 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.799 in person to two people that have gone into outer space. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.520 Buzz Aldrin I met him at an event in the 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.560 New Mexico Desert a couple of years ago, and not 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:50.160 Jeff Bezos, but Sir Richard Branson. I interviewed him a 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.960 couple of years ago. So I've now talked to two 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:57.000 people that have gone to outer space. Just so wild. Anyway, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.680 my job has taken me to very very interesting places 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.880 in my life. I often post about it on my 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.200 Instagram just how grateful I am for the experiences that 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.880 this job covering technology has given me. And it's never 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.839 lost on me. Believe me, I work hard, I do 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.799 my stuff. I'm always doing something, but it's never lost 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.400 on me just how cool some of these opportunities have been. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.840 Let's get to the first topic of the show. Samsung, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.560 something we talk about often in the tech world. It's 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.160 typically a battle between Samsung and Apple. But I don't 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.320 really see it that way as much as maybe some 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.479 other people do, or maybe it just makes a good headline, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.039 but they are two very different companies. But Samsung set 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.720 a date for their next event. It's August eleventh. It's 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.480 going to be called Galaxy Unpacked. And the tagline of 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.800 the invitation says, get ready to unfold And what do 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.040 we think that means? Of course we know what it means. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.680 They're going to show off the latest Samsung Galaxy Z 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:57.000 flip and the Galaxy Z Fold. These are two phones 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.000 that fold up. There might also be some other surprise 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.520 in there, maybe a new smart watch something like that. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.000 But I've had I had a chance to play with 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.719 both of these phones review them. In fact, the first 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.080 model in the second model, so I believe this is 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:17.119 the third generation, which is just again, it's just wild 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.880 that we're on our third generation of foldables. Apple has 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.400 not gotten to their first generation of foldables. But we 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.760 all see where this is headed. Foldables are going to 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.400 be a force in the mobile computing industry no matter what. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.479 It's just inevitable, and from everything I've seen the not 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.880 so much the first generation, but definitely the second generation 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.839 of these devices. They're really really cool, and I'm considering 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.800 one for sure. I don't think the camera's there just 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.680 yet on these devices for me to switch over, but 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.920 I do. And I think the form factor on the 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:54.320 Galaxy fold was a little bulky for me, but still 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.160 pretty cool. The z Flip is a great form factor, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.800 but again it's just not as high powered speck wise 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.600 as a phone that I want. I mean, I've talked 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.200 about the iPhone twelve Pro that I've carried for the 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.280 past year, and it just really is the one to be. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.040 It's so phenomenal it impresses me every day. In fact, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.880 something as simple as this live stream I would not 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.760 be able to do on an Android like the As 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.000 far as I can tell, the Facebook Audio Rooms feature 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.480 is only available on the iOS version of the Facebook app. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.679 I'm not even sure who can listen to it, because 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.960 sometimes I see it as being available, other times I don't. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.320 But it's just one of these things where iOS definitely 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.840 gets some of these software features earlier and more polished, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.080 whereas Android gets the hardware features a little bit earlier. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.680 So either way, no matter how you look at it, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.360 we are living in a really, really good time for smartphones. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.320 Some might even say it's boring because you know, I'm 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.960 at this point, I'm not reviewing as many phones as 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.160 before because they don't do as well on TV. Quite frankly, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.679 it's just people have you know, they keep their phones 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.600 for three years. They're not really looking to switch, and 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.520 when they do, they're just doing some research online to 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.440 kind of see, like, okay, well which one shall I 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.880 upgrade to? And that makes a lot of sense. It 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.080 used to be oh wow, this is a new feature 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.280 on the iPhone. We have touch ID, we have face ID, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.320 we have a third camera, we have a telephoto camera, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.040 we have a foldable screen. But now a lot of 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.560 those things are just kind of if you're playing poker. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.280 What do they call it house stakes? I don't know 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.360 if that is that the term, I don't know, but 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.040 it's one of these things where you just kind of 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.920 expect that your phone is going to have these things, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.240 even on the low end. So I'll still continue to 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.520 especially with the Samsung, the big flagship devices. I'll definitely 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.000 take a look at them for hands on experience. I'll 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.560 definitely review them for TV when appropriate. But it's just 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.000 not like it used to be, where any manufacturer used 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.520 to send me a phone and I would review it 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.480 because it's like, well, what does this offer that's different, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:07.360 unique and better than the competition. All right, let's get 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.360 to the first question of the show. Hey Rich, based 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.920 on your presentation on WPIX Channel eleven in New York, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.240 I ordered the Villo Mesh system. The only issue is 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.559 I cannot get the app set up for Android phones. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.240 I tried contacting them using WhatsApp. I get no response. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.280 Do you have any contact information? The woman on your 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.920 piece or he said AD actually seemed helpful. It's on 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.920 an AD, but I feel stuck. Thank you and appreciate 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.360 any help. Tom So. I got a couple of these 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.800 messages after I featured this Villo system. And just to 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.760 be clear here, I do not get paid by a 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.240 company to feature anything on TV. That's just not the 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.800 way it works. I get paid by KTLA Television to 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.240 do a technology report, and I go out and I 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:56.680 just cover stuff. And so it might seem tricky because 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.280 there are a lot of people out there that do 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.559 sponsored things and this and that. That's not me. I 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.080 don't do that. So I just I get paid by 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.760 KTLA and that's it. I go to cool places, I 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.480 get to go and see cool people, and my paycheck 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.200 comes from KTLA. So it's not an ad. Although you know, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.480 sometimes when you're featuring a product, people just don't see 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.720 the delineation. It's like, oh, well he's shown it on TV. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.280 They must have paid them. That's just not what happens 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.280 with me. But anyway, I did have to look into 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.280 this because I got a couple emails from folks somewhere 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.120 angry saying, Rich, I bought this based on your recommendation 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.880 and I can't set it up using my Android phone. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.040 I said, well, that can't be right because I tested 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.960 it with Android and iOS and there was definitely an 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.160 Android app when I tested it, and sure enough. The 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.120 response I got from the company was this. It caught 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.679 us by complete surprise. On Tuesday, we got a notification 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.000 from Google that our app was pulled from the store. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.760 They gave us the reason that we did not call 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.400 out in our privacy policy that users have the option 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:01.120 to upload an image as their profile picture. It's pretty common, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:07.280 but so apparently our word in the terms of service 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.440 was not sufficient for Google. We immediately took steps to 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.600 amend the policy and resubmitted the app the same day. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.040 We're waiting for Google to improve and approve and reinstate 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.400 the app, but we've made the APK available for download, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.400 and they gave a link. And that is one of 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.680 the beauty the beauties of Android is that if you know, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.280 if something happens with Android and an app, you could 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.920 what's called sideload an app. So you can still get 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.720 the Villo app. What's called an APK, you download that 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.079 you installed on your phone and it still works. Of course, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.760 it's easier and simpler to go through the official Google 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.680 Play Store, but you do have this option, so I 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.920 expect the app to be available again. There's no problem 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.920 with Villo. There's you know, this is a technicality and 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.480 privacy is so big these days that all these companies 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.160 are taking it very seriously. So you can go to 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.480 the website, download the APK. I'll put the link in 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.280 my notes. Otherwise you can wait for it to be available, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.400 but the APK will do it pretty much the same way, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.400 all right. Next story of the week is Facebook and 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:17.480 specifically Instagram. They have some new content restricter sliders. I 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:18.760 don't know what you want to call it, but they 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.520 call it sensitive content control on Instagram. So this allows 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.360 you to decide how much sensitive content shows up in 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.240 Explore and if you've ever gone to the Explore page, 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.440 depending on what you've looked at in the past, it 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.840 kind of takes on a life of its own. And 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.079 I'll be honest, at some point with my Explore page, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.520 it was a lot of there's a lot of bikini 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.960 clad women. I don't know what that tells you about 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.640 some of the posts on my Instagram. I don't know, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.000 but you know, you click things, you look at stuff, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.240 and next thing you know, your Explore page could be 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.480 filled with stuff that may be sexually suggestive or even violent, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.200 and Facebook and Instagram know that, and it just kind 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.400 of happens because what do they want to do. They 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.880 want to get you to click, So they're going to 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.920 show you the stuff that's going to make you click, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.920 and so I ended up on my Explore page, I 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.760 ended up. And you can try this as well, because 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.679 it's kind of sick of seeing this stuff. And if 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.280 you press and hold a picture on your Explore page, 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.240 it will bring up something that says not interested, and 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.160 so you can do that to kind of train the 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.200 algorithm to stop showing you some of this trash. But 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.000 what they're going to do is introduce this new sensitive 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.520 content control in the app, so you can decide do 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.800 you want to see more of this kind of stuff? 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.360 Do you want to see less of this kind of 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.680 stuff or even more of this kind of stuff? And 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.760 one exception to this, the allow option is not available 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.800 to people under eighteen, which is a relief to myself 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:52.080 a parent who doesn't necessarily want their kids seeing some 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.760 of this stuff. And TikTok is another one. You know, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.080 you scroll through TikTok and you can see a lot 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.520 of things that you might not be expected. And my 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.280 kids will often take my phone and ask to, you know, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.000 take a look at it, and it concerns me because 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.520 what are they exposed to by looking at this stuff? 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.600 So of course it's my account, so I can't really 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.319 there's only so much I can do, even on Instagram. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.320 But if you want to try this and see these 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.480 these content sliders for yourself, you can go into settings 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.240 and then account and then look for sensitive Content Control. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.960 Again it's allow you and this this feature will say 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.160 you may see photos and videos that could be upsetting 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.360 or offensive. Limit is the default. You may see some 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.680 photos and videos that could be upsetting or offensive, and 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.520 limit even more you'll see fewer photos and videos that 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:49.640 could be upsetting or offensive. And I think that Instagram 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.600 is kind of hedging its bets here. They can't cut 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.600 out everything because people always find ways around this stuff. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.320 But that's you know, that's an option for you to 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.880 go in and change it. And maybe you don't care, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.360 maybe you like seeing whatever you're seeing. That's fine. But 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.200 to me, the important thing is to know that you 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.600 can press and hold a picture on your explore page 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.560 and you can hide it, and then the algorithm will 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.720 learn from that and say, okay, let's not show as 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.160 many of these types of things. And for me, it's 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.280 actually opened up a newer world on my Instagram Explore 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.480 page one. That's actually slightly more useful because now I'm 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.320 seeing more tech stuff, more of the stuff that I 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:31.880 actually would like to interact with. All right, next question. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.720 Bolts Pro is the headline, Hey, Rich, have you heard 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.040 of this charger? What do you think of it? Thanks 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.480 Valerie w Well. I get a lot of emails from 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.920 people about this boltz pro and I have to look 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.840 it up. I assume it's some sort of item that's 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.000 being heavily advertised on social media, and sure enough, when 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.760 I look it up, of course, you just see a 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.840 whole bunch of websites about this. But here's the thing. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.360 When you go to the main page of bolts Pro, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.040 it's just one of those websites that's pretty much a 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.160 I don't want to call it a scam, but it's 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.560 definitely not what it seems to be. It tries to 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.760 make it look like it's on a blog and it's 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.360 a review, and guess what it's not. It's what's called 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:27.600 an advertorial, which means it's a charger that's you know, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.800 it's just a charger, that's all it is, that has 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.600 four USB ports and it's you know, supposedly so fast, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.360 and it's not. But I would just recommend getting a 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.200 charger on Amazon from Anchor and just search for a 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.440 USB C charger or whatever you need. But this is 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:48.280 totally an advertisement that's made to look like a blog post, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.120 and if you try to look for legitimate reviews, there 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.200 just aren't any, which is also bad. And you can't 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.040 buy it on Amazon, which is also bad. So don't 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.600 worry about this Bolts pro. I would not purchase it. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.600 I would just look for an Anchor charger on Amazon. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.200 You want a twenty watch charger, if you want something 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.720 that's going to be fast, you want to look for 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.879 a Qualcom Quick Charge if you want something that's going 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.760 to charge your phone faster. But that's what I would 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.960 look at. You don't need this Bolts thing anything that's 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.960 advertised on social media and then all of a sudden 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.360 you look for it on Amazon. If you can't find 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.399 on Amazon, that's a red flag as well. It's just 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.639 one of these things where they just heavily concentrate the 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.639 advertising big time and they will get sales off of it. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.680 But the reality is there are much better deals out there. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.439 And if you see these websites that give you like 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:44.919 high pressure sales tactics, they're also bogus. So that's what 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.240 I think about that. All right, just saying hi to 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.440 the folks on Facebook. Let me give a shout out 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.120 to the folks in the front row. These are people 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:59.200 who have sent stars to me. Roshan, Shafie, Stanley, JC, Soak, Jinhang, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.080 Pamela and Yogish. Thanks for being in the front row. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.800 Thanks for sending those stars my way. I do appreciate it. 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.119 And this is so much fun to be able to 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.040 do this with you, It really is. All right, let's 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:16.760 talk about email protection. Take a sip of my tea here. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.679 This is from duck duck Go, and this is a 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.880 new way to protect your email. They call it very 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:30.080 very standard name here email protection. That's what they call 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.080 it now, duck duck Go. I'll be honest, I do 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.359 not use duck duck Go. I get a lot of 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.600 emails about people saying they want more secure and more 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:43.040 privacy centric search engines. I just don't think duck duck go. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.440 I'm gonna just check this real quick. Let's do a 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:51.440 quick search. I just don't think duck duck go gives 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.679 me the search results that I want. They're just not 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.440 as oh gosh, how do I say this up to 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.639 day as current, as thorough as something that Google's going 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.240 to give you. And if you want a search engine 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.439 that's maybe a little bit of an alternative to Google, 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.679 I would check out Niva and ee v A, and 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.679 I do think that that one is more along the 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.840 lines of the quality of Google. And so although I 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.919 don't use them either, I still just use Google. I 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.520 really love Google, and it's just that's what I like. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.720 But if you use Duck, Duck Go or Brave or 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.520 any of these other things and it works for you, 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.560 then fine, that's that's great. It just for me personally, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.000 as a reporter, I'm doing so much research on stuff 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.639 that's brand new and I need like very new results. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.400 It's tough to get that from these other search engines. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.800 With all that said, I do think that what Duck 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.560 dot go is cool is doing is cool. I do 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.720 think this email protection is great. And basically what you 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.960 do is you sign up for a duck at a 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.919 you know, an email address that's at duck dot com, 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.440 and you send emails there. And what they do is 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.000 they realize that a lot of people don't want to 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.000 switch email providers. So what they do is they just 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.640 forward the email to your regular inbox, so whether that's 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.680 Gmail or Yahoo or whatever, but they remove the email 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.320 trackers and so that is a really cool service. They 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.040 don't look at your emails, they don't track your emails themselves, 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.879 but you might be surprised. According to their blog post, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.920 and I knew this to know that seventy percent of 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.160 emails contain some sort of trackers that detect when you've 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.560 opened the message, where you've opened the message, and what 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.800 device you're using to open that message. And for this reason, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.160 I go into my Gmail and I turn off external images. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.159 So when all these people send me messages with a 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.119 tiny tracking pixel embedded in that image, guess what, it 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.520 doesn't load. And they're really sad. Now there may be 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.919 other ways, other clues that they're using to see if 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.800 I've opened their email. When you click on links, a 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:51.760 lot of times those links are tracked. I mean, there's 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.280 so many ways for these companies and people to do 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.760 this and spammers, and it all goes into these big 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.440 databases that you know, kind of figure out who you are. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.040 So anyway, that's one thing you can do. You can 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.040 sign up for this duck email address. You can also 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.639 create a unique private email addresses that you can just 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.920 dispose of when you're done. So let's say you sign 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.679 up for a free trial on a website and you know, 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:17.320 maybe don't need a credit card or whatever, but you 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.640 don't want to be bombarded with all those emails afterwards 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.760 to say please sign up, here's a better deal, here's 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.160 a better deal. You can just deactivate that email address 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.560 and you won't get a new email from them. So 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.320 Duck dot go Email protection is free. You sign up 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.879 for it through the app, and unfortunately it is a 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.320 it is a invite only at this point, so you 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.040 have to download the Duck dot Go for iOS or Android, 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.560 open up the settings Beta Protection email Protection, and then 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.920