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[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Great project that deserves all the funding it can get.

DivestOS is second only to GrapheneOS (from what I can tell, at least), Mull is a fantastic hardened Firefox fork that barely trails behind with updates, and... well I don't know much about his other apps, to be honest.

But those two projects alone are invaluable to the Android privacy and FOSS community.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I like Divest more as it has a strong commitment to free software.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

As a Graphene and Mull user, I can only say it's surprising and a little sad the security/privacy and copyleft don't overlap as often as they should (which is all the time).

[–] fuggadihere@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago