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About Opt Out

Welcome to Opt Out, where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

Publisher

Seth For Privacy

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 May 2021

Latest episode

10 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

9 of 48 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Escaping the technocracy w/ Gabriel Custodiet and UrbanHacker

   If you’ve ever wanted to dive deeper into personal privacy and security, there’s no better resource out there than Escape the Technocracy. I chat with the creators on why they started the project, what to expect from it, and where they’re taking it next. More about Gabriel and Urban Gabriel’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/gabriel-custodiet/Urban’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/urbanhacker/More about Escape the Technocracy Website: https://escapethetechnocracy.com...

2. 

   29 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Making Bitcoin dev great at Bitcoin++ w/ Nifty Nei

   Nifty Nei discusses Bitcoin development and the Bitcoin++ conference with the host, exploring ways to improve Bitcoin events for developers in this interview.

3. 

   30 Mar 2025TRANSCRIPT

   The next step for VPNs w/ Carl Dong from Obscura

   The VPN paradigm has grown stale, with simple one-party providers being the best available. But what if we could further minimize trust by shift to a two-party hop system? Obscura is doing just that, and we’re sitting down with their founder Carl Dong to learn all about it. More about Carl Carl’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/carl-dong/More about Obscura Website: https://obscura.net/Obscura’s Twitter: https://x.com/obscuravpnTechnical Blog Post on Obscura: https://obscura.net/b...

Inside a recent episode

Escaping the technocracy w/ Gabriel Custodiet and UrbanHacker

Published 10 Sept 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We need to be like Bruce Lee, right? Be like water, just be flexible. And if somebody is not respecting our privacy, if this website is not allowing us because we don't have a VPN, there are always alternatives. And we need to find these alternatives and support these alternatives. And they're cropping up all the time. We have a lot of digital privacy companies, a lot of digital privacy software that is cropping up, that is useful. Multiple options these days. Monero is thriving. That is an easy option for people who hate all the bank KYC surveillance BS. easy option for people. Well, maybe not easy, but it's certainly an option. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

33,425

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

32 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

51

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