Re: [Trisquel-users] How to recognize non-free javascript

[onpon4]

I tried LibreJS 5.4 when it was first released and honestly wasn't impressed.  
It's still basically the same, including breaking web pages in ways that are  
completely unrelated to Javascript and having a whitelist that only serves to  
execute ALL Javascript code used on a whitelisted webpage, regardless of what  
script it is or even where it's from.

I still think they should fork NoScript, make it more powerful (so it can  
allow and deny individual scripts, rather than having a list of trusted  
sources for scripts), and add the LibreJS features.

But that still wouldn't be enough. We need something powerful that combines  
the ideas of script blocking (e.g. NoScript) and user scripts (e.g.  
Greasemonkey) to allow easy, fine-tuned script execution control. Better and  
easier than current user scripts.

I don't get why the FSF seems to approach the problem of proprietary  
Javascript so differently than with other proprietary software. LibreJS is  
like if, in 1983, RMS had written a shell script that somehow showed  
approximately how much proprietary software was on a computer and blocked  
that software (plus some collateral damage on free software), then told  
people to use the resulting barely-usable or unusable system and complain to  
the distributor of the system that the script broke it. If you can see how  
absurd that sounds, you can see how absurd I think the idea of LibreJS is.  
It's stalling, and the sooner we stop just blocking Javascript and start  
actually working to replace the non-free Javascript code (the first step of  
which is making running custom Javascript and otherwise controlling  
Javascript execution much easier than it is now), the better.