ok thats sorta what i thought you meant - i couldnt have said it more verbosely myself - i do quite agree that the web is a hopeless cause for FOSS - as you say, the only real solution is stop running foreign scripts completely - though allowing white-listed client-side JS libraries is an interesting idea
i will add this though, as you mention the average user's complacency - such as: On 02/22/2018 03:22 AM, Ivan Zaigralin wrote: > average users are willing to run software from any source > They don't even understand the basic difference between > downloading data versus executing an arbitrary algorithm i think even that statement is over-stating the user's understanding - the average user does not even consider the web to be software - it is nothing more significant than a magazine or TV show - most people do not care what software is running in their television or even know that their television is running software - take next into account that the casual PC user is migrating to smart-phones which, just as a television or a home-bot appliance, the owner does not see as a computer - websites, "apps", tweeting, and of course shopping, those are all just "stuff that my phone does" when i push the pretty buttons - just as the TV goes on when i press the red button on the remote - as long as that works why should the user care about it's software - they are not computing with that device; they are merely entertaining themselves with it to put this into context: the underlying impetus of the 4 freedoms is that user should control their own computing - frankly, i dont consider tweeting and shopping to be "computing" in any meaningful sense; and understandably so, neither does the casual user - aside from privacy concerns, it is an increasingly less convincing argument to make to the casual user that software freedom is something they should be concerned about
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