Re: [directory-discuss] [[Sux0r]] links to a proprietary page

[Ian Kelling]

Svetlana Tkachenko <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Marcin,
>
> Marcin Cieslak <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Svetlana Tkachenko wrote:
>> 
>> > I am not sure I am following. I was referring to proprietary JavaScript 
>> > files which load when you open github.com.
>> 
>> There are currently 896 pages in the free software directory that link 
>> to GitHub:
>> 
>> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special:LinkSearch/github.com&limit=900&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com
>> 
>> Shall we purge those entries from the directory?
>
> Including 'git clone http://github.com/sveta/myhelloworld.git' does not 
> require the user to run prorpietary software, but visiting an 
> http://github.com link does. Perhaps these links can be removed or replaced 
> with links which do not require running the proprietary JavaScripts.
>
> Svetlana

Visiting a http://github.com link does not require running nonfree
javascript. It asks the browser to, but you can choose not to by
disabling it through settings or an extension like librejs or noscript
or others. That is the case for most web pages, so It's ok for the
directory to link to them.

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