[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-22 Thread lcerf
Indeed. Pyllyukko, who is quite paranoid but honest, even keeps the protection against phishing that Safe Browsing brings: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js Honesty is what is probably lacking to somebody who, on one hand, pretends to be concerned about Google learning too much from

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-21 Thread lcerf
A: I see no issue with this at this point. Previously (before WebExtensions) any extension could enable that or make changes to any other preference, but that is all sandboxed away now. *Third-party* attacks concern*ed* RMS. Not Mozilla. Not anymore. As you see - just mitigations, not a

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-19 Thread lcerf
analytics.js is not 10M lines of code. "Unminify" https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/chrome/test/data/chromeproxy/extension/google-analytics-bundle.js (about 1300 lines of code) all you want and try to rewrite part of it in understandable JavaScript (with meaningful

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-19 Thread lcerf
But you can unminify it. That's what I meant. It is still difficult to read due to the non-descriptive variable and function names but that is surely easier to reverse engineer than a binary code. Are you the same person who pretends that freedom 1 is not practical because it is too much

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-19 Thread lcerf
These make me think that the analytics may be part of the Android version or Chrome (where I assume that being tracked is inevitable). I see no reason why the Android version of Chromium would "need" Google Analytics more than the desktop versions. BTW if

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-18 Thread lcerf
I don't think it is not part of the browser (is it?). They are like embedded dependencies. "third_party" contains 3,726,248 lines of codes, according to 'sloccount'. They are not included for nothing.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free software foundations problems

2018-02-18 Thread lcerf
Unclear to who? Some lawyer? Seems pretty clear to me. Do you really want a lawyer to tell you what software to use? Or a layman who fails to understand legal terms? I really want the lawyer. The layman may be somebody who believes he understands everything after looking at one single