Thanks for your considered post.
I can see that working in a professional situation, but regular people are not going to be motivated to do that.
Me too! But who do you think are reading and watching those videos? Not my friend who didn’t like Tutanota. He will never seek out a Techlore video, unless something very dramatic happens.
I agree. I fear the quote taken out of context of the article has put you on the wrong path. I devote many hours each week writing articles to show what it is like for a non-technical person to adopt privacy tools. In this particular article, I was attempting to ‘steelman’ counter arguments, in order to get a better picture of the real problem. You can see that framework in the first couple of paragraphs of the article.
To your point - you are still not seeing just how little a non-technical person who is not motivated to determine their threat model for privacy or security reasons might be able to do without guidance. You say: select a privacy search engine. My Tutanota friend will not know how to do that himself. Same with adding extensions to a browser. That is the level of disinterest in IT I am talking about. I suspect many people operate at that level. I don’t say that to patronise people, but because I think that is the reality we are dealing with. That’s why I like Signal a lot. I can just say: download the app in your store and start using it. My Tutanota friend has and uses Signal no problem.