LibreJS (GNU IceCat)

[ddugovic]

It's not an issue of privacy. The FSF has never been about privacy in particular, it's the principle of software freedom itself.

And yes, I do read javascript. It's running in my browser, I have a right to know what it's doing, as much as I enjoy seeing what the world is doing with JS and learn neat tricks.

There are times when their JS will just bork up and kill a tab (not long ago, kill entire browser), I have a right to know how that happened. And what's worse than minified JS, is codified JS, base64 JS, JS that uses Ascii codes to write stuff. You know who uses this syntax? Hackers trying to fool innocent people into running weird code. If you've got nothing to hide, don't hide your JS.

No, I will not use tor, nor will I use a vpn, or resort to use standard resolutions or fonts. It's my right to customise everything as I like, and my right to know if this is being abused to track me or not.

https://reddit.com/r/fsf/comments/9ezlkr/why_does_librejs_matter/e5ssbey/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[niklasf]

We try to support LibreJS (it came up in #8196 last), but LibreJS itself needs some bugfixes. For example /tv has:

<link rel="jslicense" href="/source">

And /source has a table that I believe should be compatible: https://lichess.org/source#jslicense-labels1.

There are some smaller issues to iron out (the table might not be completely up to date), but it's hard to align everything manually while LibreJS doesn't correctly point out issues.