Brave is a less than ideal choice...

De "futo"ing would be a good idea as well. Them being associated with Curtis Yarvin (literally their peer tube) who is a piece of shit close enough to elon musk and thiel.

Lou's Rossman's right to repair work is great. His ability to recognize and not associate with some of the shittiest people and groups has become legend. (Kiwi farms anyone?)

An actual answer for the browser instead of just shitting on Brave would be IronFox (hardened Firefox), and the best place to get it would be the Accrescent app store.

But for real don't use Brave...

Obtainium!

They have new community-suggested install methods for difficult-to-get apps like Proton Calendar and Proton Mail. Usually, you'd only be able to get those from the Play Store. Obtainium lets you install them directly from their Github repos.

Same! Just moved to graphene and it's great!

Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.

Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.

I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.

https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge

Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.

https://newpipe.net/

Voyager to surf lemmy

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager

Magisk twice is killing me.

Librewolf and waterfox over brave

Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? https://ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/

It's obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

Also, these are my initial impressions: https://programming.dev/post/47806969

One issue I've hit when de-googling is some sites/services/orgs/etc won't let me change my email. So I'm stuck with google as long as I use those sites/services/orgs.

Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?

Brave again?!

hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?

Can people use tailscale without single sign in. All the SSOs I saw were fascists corps.

The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Android and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.

Good work! You should work on switching away from Proton's apps/services next, as their CEO has indicated his support for fascists, and they have repeatedly turned over VPN logs when nation-states come asking.

I use Mullvad's VPN and KeePass DX + Syncthing for passwords

Still got a Gmail account?

plainapp

Good boy