I recommend volunteering at a sanctuary to determine if it's something you really want. Having a pet fox is practically a full time job. Most people can't handle it, and many end up in sanctuaries.
You can have pet foxes. They're not great pets, they're loud, they smell bad, they will probably pee on everything, but if captive bred theyre quite tame and there's a particular line that came from a domestication experiment who are especially tame.
I have pictures (maybe I'll post some, despite the ick factor) where this fox laid down to sleep right next to a pillow it had shit all over. And we're not talking pebbles, we're talking the runs and it was a nightmare to clean. It was tempting to burn the thing.... I also have to clean massive piles of fox poop off the decking on a regular basis.
Of course, one captive-bred will likely be better, but I absolutely agree with you they won't make great pets.
They are cute, but frankly, that is just about sufficient to let me tolerate them sleeping in the gazebo and thoroughly washing stuff afterward, but not nearly sufficient to make me consider one as a pet.