Re: [directory-discuss] The JavaScript problem with web browser blockers

[J.B. Nicholson]

David Hedlund wrote:
> However, LibreJS takes a lot of resources so most people stay with just
> a blocker enabled in their browser extension list.

If people are just using an ad blocker and avoiding LibreJS because LibreJS 
slows down their browsing, perhaps LibreJS should have an optional 
dependency of known free software ad blockers?

> They only way to make EasyList and EasyPrivacy manage 100% free software is
> by removing the non-free JS filters from them. Would the best route to
> achieve this be to ask the Adblock Plus company to split easylist.txt into
> easylist-noscripts.txt and easylist-scripts.txt, and easyprivacy into
> easyprivacy-noscripts.txt and easyprivacy-scripts.txt?

I don't know enough about the LibreJS internals, Firefox add-on API, or ad 
blockers like Adblock Plus, uBlock origin, etc. to say if that's a good 
route to take but in case that fails, could and should LibreJS be modified 
to behave differently? Perhaps LibreJS could see that a supported ad 
blocker is installed and provide an entry for the ad blocker to use that 
filters out known nonfree JS. Therefore the user can use the ad blocker to 
block the non-free JS instead of doing this blocking itself?