I have just received a Samsung galaxy fold5 through the post, however I imagine it’s full of bloatware and I’m inexperienced with this type of device. What is the first things that you would do to secure it? Thank you 😊

Edit: I mean to be more privacy focused

  • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Thankfully firefox is open source and has amazing community forks and configs like librewolf, mullvad, and arkenfox user.js. I personally don’t like to support the chromium monopoly, and firefox hardened is better on desktop hands down. Brave also shills crypto so much and makes money off ads so not a great look for a privacy browser.

    • owlinsight@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thank you so much for an actual reply, again. It’s so disheartening to see the level of “conversation” that goes around here sometimes. It can be such an echo chamber filled with entitled a-holes here at times (like every single time anyone dares to say anything about Firefox).

      I also love Firefox and the fact it is open source. I also personally use Firefox and Arkenfox/Tor, but I’ve also tried Brave (and basically every other browser) and for the life of me cannot understand why the hate. I think we all care about privacy, so that should be the end goal. I will support anything that makes people more interested in privacy (which Brave does) and that helps in taking away from the monopolistic control of Google. You can dislike Brave CEO (as one should) but it’s not like Firefox is perfect either. Accepting money from Google, not supporting site isolation, associating your download with a token to keep telemetry on your usage, the extensive tweaks required to make it safe, or the overall delay within the community or for any improvements are all worthy criticisms to be aware of.

      • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        I do agree on many of your points and I used to use Brave before certain deal breakers. I personally have in addition mulch, cromite, and Privacy Browser for mobile so i can try different options. On desktop, gecko browser are much more comfortable, but i have the ungoogled chromium flatpak browser with ublock. Mozilla has a better track record than google for privacy and is big enough to have good security and updates, and often disallow features that would compromise privacy, that otherwise chromium accepts iirc.