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PSA: DivestOS is dead
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That sucks, I liked Mull.
I'd rather use stock firefox than Brave. Why would anyone use brave? How many times have they been caught doing sketchy things like crypto mining or inserting trackers?
A good way to get browsers on android is through FFUpdater (repo, F-Droid) it includes various forks etc. Not all are directly available via F-Droid.
As a tangent, there's also Obtainium [F-Droid] which can be used to download app updates, I use it to download Firefox beta straight from Mozilla
Curated list of apps that can be configured to be installed/updated with Obtainium
I use obtainium for a couple of things; I'm glad it's there. I don't really understand the link though? All the stuff about configurations etc. I can see that there are lots of non-FLOSS packages mixed up in there.
One reason I like the ffupdater is that they are a bit more aggressive in their curation. Things gets removed if they are not good so I don't need to keep up on all the browser gossip. e.g. #35 #555