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Foss Phone? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by degooglerleon@lemmy.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I am FOSS-friendly? How can I do better?

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[–] helix@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You’ll probably think the reason is stupid, but I’m not really down to use Firefox mainly because I think their interface is terrible.

No, that's fine. Probably a trade-off between usability and philosophy at this point. You actually nearly succeeded in having me try brave but it's not in F-Droid repositories, so I didn't.

There’s also the fact that most of the money Mozilla makes comes from Google, and I don’t really feel good using a product from a company that’s basically propped up by Google

Pretty sure Brave wouldn't exist without Google money either. They're not independent from Google if they didn't code their browser from scratch, IMHO.

Fennec

Basically FOSS build of mobile firefox. If you tried FF, no need to try Fennec.

the only people who are 100% ethical all the time are trust fund babies or fools

idk how one could be ethical as trust fund baby, who by definition gets funded by the patriarchy and capitalism.

Obviously I'm not operating 100% ethical either, but my goal isn't 100% but whatever percentage is more than what I did last year.

For example, in 2012 I had 70 Amazon orders. In 2021 I actually managed to get it down to 0. Recently I kinda relapsed but at least it's less than 20 for 2025, I'm striving to get back down to 0 again. Morally perfect? Certainly not. But I'm trying.

What I'm saying is, I'm doing this based on the browser's makers' vibes, and the article confirms that other people than myself have the same focus on the same issues as me. I just didn't wamt to list them all in a lemmy post.

And my bad if any of my comments came off as rude or like I was trying to offend anyone, that wasn’t my intention.

Thank you! Your clarification made me feel better interacting with you regardless of intention :)

[–] degooglerleon@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

hey man, what's up, I've got some updates. I installed Fennec and used it for a bit, it actually seems pretty good, I'm really considering using it as my default, even though I'll miss Brave's speed, the nice UI, and the widget showing how many ads were blocked, but Fennec is lighter (storage-wise) and has everything I need, like, it's not "Oh my God, the best browser in the universe," but it does what it's supposed to, I'm happy with it.

[–] degooglerleon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

It actually makes sense, since Brave is based on Chromium, it's more of a fact than an opinion to say they aren't completely independent from Google.

I've actually heard good things about Firefox, and I like the idea of a lightweight browser, but the interface really put me off. I'm going to give Fennec a shot, and if I remember, I'll come back here to give my take on what I thought of it.