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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
FOSS adware and spyware apps are rare because it’s trivial to fork it and remove the undesirable elements. Users have every incentive to use the ad-free and spyware-free forks, which eventually causes the superior user-friendly forks to overtake the originals. However, proprietary adware and spyware apps cannot be forked in the same way, preventing users from stripping out the ads and tracking. The ability to use, modify, and redistribute “trash software” allows anyone to transform FOSS with undesirable elements into excellent software by removing such elements, whereas proprietary “trash software” remains trashy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The 5 people who disagree with you:
And, no, you making baseless assertions while attacking everyone who disagrees with you does not count as evidence.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s actually 5 people vs. you right now, and anyone can count to confirm it. Calling out the fact that you have produced zero evidence for your wild claims is not “wanting to lie”, it’s just stating what any observer can see.

You said that your “reasoning is experience”, so let this conversation be an experience that challenges your perception of what others think about FOSS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

FOSS has this reputation among most people.

Source? Every commenter here disagrees with you, so it seems like your wild claim is not supported by any evidence.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When you look at any app store, you’ll find that the many apps that are infested with ads, spyware, malware, and dark patterns are pretty much always proprietary. Conversely, any FOSS app that tries to introduce such garbage would be forked to remove their offending attributes, which makes FOSS apps much higher-quality than proprietary apps in general.

You are using false equivalence by incorrectly implying that proprietary software is commercial while FOSS is not. Both FOSS and proprietary software can be sold and commercialized with various monetization strategies. For example, you are currently using Lemmy, a FOSS social network whose development is funded by donations. Nobody here believes that Reddit is better because it is proprietary adware.

Free and open source software licenses provide users the right to use, modify, and redistribute the software. Proprietary software does not. That difference makes FOSS inherently better for users than proprietary software.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Proprietary software is also notoriously low-quality and can disappear at any time when the developer loses motivation. Additionally, because the software is closed source, nobody else is able to continue the development of proprietary abandonware. On the other hand, abandoned FOSS projects can be forked and continued, which is something I see often.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Here’s a demonstration of Waydroid on FuriOS and the accompanying blog post from 6 months ago. I’m obviously not a fan of X (Twitter), but the video shows that the app works in the Android container.

Yes, I also hope to see the price go down.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The FuriPhone, which runs the FuriOS Linux distribution, has a polished enough user experience that it can be used as a daily driver by many people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And VSCodium is the project that releases builds from the VS Code source code. Privacy-conscious developers should use VSCodium (which is fully FOSS) instead of Visual Studio Code (which is partially proprietary and includes tracking).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s incorrect. GPL licenses are open source.

The GPL does not restrict anyone from selling GPL-licensed software as a component of an aggregate software distribution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Software licenses that “discriminate against any person or group of persons” or “restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor” are not open source. Llama’s license doesn’t just restrict Llama from being used by companies with “700 million monthly active users”, it also restricts Llama from being used to “create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model” or being used for military use (although Meta made an exception for the US military). Therefore, Llama is not open source.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you are referring to licenses that prohibit commercial use or prevent certain types of users from using the software, those licenses are not open source because they “discriminate against any person or group of persons”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps shortcut leaves Bihar family stranded in Karnataka's dense jungle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
MapQuest uses OpenStreetMap data, so that may actually be true for areas where Google Maps has poor coverage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Mull has defaults that improve privacy at the cost of performance and compatibility. They maintain a list of changes that you can reverse through about:config. If Mull seems slow for you, consider re-enabling the JavaScript JIT.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Tusky has been working very well for me on Android. There’s also Ice Cubes for iOS. Both are free and open source.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Any details on that? The full uBlock Origin works well on mobile and I don’t see how a lite version with reduced blocking effectiveness could be more useful.