Re: A suggest to LibreJS

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

Hi Dan

> Recently I have written such letter to GNU, and I was addressed 
> directly to the maintainer.
> 
> 
> LibreJS just blocks all the non-trivial and non-free script on the 
> webpage, so many sites are not working, and I should reject them. 
> Nowadays, as it said in the article "What's wrong with YouTube" 
> (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html), YouTube 
> and other sites (Twitter, Instagram) have a way to be used with 
> alternative front-end (Invidious, Nitter, Bibliogram). Unfortunately,  
> many sites, such as Wikipedia, still use direct links. I thought, that  
> LibreJS should provide an opportunity to use redirect links to these 
> resources in order to avoid realization of non-free software. An 
> F-Droid, there is such way - UntrackMe, but there is no method to use 
> same extension on the computer.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Here is source code of UntrackMe:
https://framagit.org/tom79/nitterizeme

GNU IceCat has a few other useful extensions, 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
but none similar in feature.

If someone would like to reuse some code to write such an addon, would maybe be 
partly similar to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pageexpand/ or 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-redirect/, whose download 
buttons actually are a renamed .zip archive.

-- 
Svetlana Tkachenko, Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation
= Gryllida, Volunteer for the Wikimedia movement in English and Russian
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