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Note, I’m not OP and I’ve been using as many open source apps as I can for a long time. I agree with you and I’m equally trying to avoid corporate apps. My comment was more a cry of frustration of that work becoming harder as the choices grow thinner.

Given the question was about slop-free alternatives, this is not it. It has a skills, claude and other slop stuff in the .gitignore

Damn it! I’m getting real tired of almost every single FOSS Android app getting heavily slopped. Browsing F-Droid is becoming an exercise in frustration.

Near the end of the article:

Disclosure: I am an angel investor in FlexDrill, a Vienna startup building the missing machine from this article.

I thought this deserved further attention and should be at least closer to the start given the strong incentive the article gives to promote the solution they invested in.

My prediction then is that, when it launches, nobody will care about the new Kassovitz’ movie that is being made “almost entirely AI-enabled”.

Braves Adblock is generally very good as i recall. Traditional adblockers block content that is already downloaded while brave blocks it from using bandwidth at all. (Please correct if wrong)

This is wrong, almost all reputable ad blockers block specific known problematic domains or endpoints from being reached altogether, nothing is downloaded. You can check this in the most common blocking rules out there, such as EasyList.

This was also the drama about chrome deprecating manifest v1, which allowed for more of these rules dynamically, and in which Google forced extensions for the Chrome browser only to follow a more limited approach in manifest v2, but still network blocking.

I was hoping qwant, with its own (partial) search index, would be immune to it, but searching for neocities also doesn’t show any results for neocities.org there unfortunately, or at least it did not for me.

It was first named Phoenix and they ran into issues with the phoenix BIOS because some of their BIOSes had a built in browser. They renamed to Firebird and then found out about the DB with the same name, and that’s when they finally renamed to Firefox.

Cool, I’ve been using RSS Launchpad because it was the only one I found to also work on the android version of Firefox, but I’ll take a look 👀

The entrance being behind a paywall is bad, but if you’re not aware of it before using the toilet this holds you hostage unable to get clean until you pay up, with either your money or your attention. I’d say this is a more evil design, even though both are evil.