Re: Web browsing (was Re: Concurrency, again)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > relatively straightforward. State of the art is blacklisting or
  > whitelisting various pages and scripts, and I think it will be pretty
  > easy to put in such mechanisms given all the hooks the rest of the
  > functionality needs.

I hope it is relatively straightforward -- but we shouldn't put it off!
We should not release an Emacs browser which is vulnerable to this
sort of mistreatment; rather, we should attend to this issue
in the first release where it is needed.

What about EWW?  Is it vulnerable to any of the tracking tags?


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