Hi,
How dangerous is javascript when browsing?
Does anyone in this forum browses the Internet with a javascript-disabled
browser?
Or maybe you just disable it when you are visiting a website you don't trust?
What does the LibreJS add-on do?
Does it make web browsing safer?
Once I get some
Proprietary Javascript is a way smaller problem than normal proprietary
software for two reasons:
first, it is executed in your webbrowser, which puts it in a sandbox. That
means that the webbrowser limits what javascript can actually do, and if your
webbrowser is free software, everybody can
Judging exclusively from what I've read so far the situation is actually far
worse than mate quantum describes. First of all, it appears that I would say
99% of tracking techniques rely heavily on javascript, and by heavily I mean
they will not work if js is disabled. If EFF's study on finger
> How dangerous is javascript when browsing?
JavaScript is how a lot of people lose protection on Tor.
Personally, JavaScript programs have put me in the following situations:
* unable to highlight text in article with cursor
* unable to copy text in article with Ctrl+C
* pop-
> first, it is executed in your webbrowser, which puts it in a sandbox. That
> means that the webbrowser limits what javascript can actually do, and if your
>
> webbrowser is free software, everybody can check if it is really doing a
> proper job.
Security is not the same as user freedom.
> They're actually probably the only way you
> could legally distribute embedded JavaScript if it is under > the GNU
> General Public License.
Onpon4 makes some good points on this here:
https://onpon4.github.io/other/kill-js/
> and it limits what
> Facebook and other malicious sites can do w
> > They're actually probably the only way you
> > could legally distribute embedded JavaScript if it is under > the GNU
> > General Public License.
>
> Onpon4 makes some good points on this here:
> https://onpon4.github.io/other/kill-js/
I agree with much of her article, but I think LibreJ
"That's not source code."
It's the code that gets executed in your browser, and again, for the
average-joe website that just opens a dropdown menu or sends an ajax request
to fetch, let's say, some posts from the database, this IS exactly what the
author of the code wrote.
I talked about ug
Hm, it seems we disagree on some basic points. My work is done.
That's alright. Different viewpoints add to diversity.
A minor correction also: The practice of distributing any JavaScript
requires a license notice as described by the license text.
For example, in the case of Modified BSD License (3-clause BSD), "MIT
License" (Expat License or sometimes X11 License), the license text
itself says one has to use the
What?
LibreJS standards were DESIGNED to answer "What would true GPL
compliance look like with JavaScript?"
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