On 26/07/17 10:53, Max Mehl wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > # Jonas Oberg [2017-07-26 10:37 +0200]: >>> Some services are Free Software unfriendly and harm your privacy. >> >> Are there any services we list which don't work with Free Software? If >> so, >> I think it's best to state that: >> >> Some services don't work with Free Software or harm your privacy. >> >> If all services we list can be connected to with Free Software, then we >> might well just shorten it to: >> >> Some services harm your privacy. > > Good point but not easy to answer. All services can be viewed with a > Free Software browser but e.g. Facebook tries to convince you of > downloading the non-free Messenger app (you cannot even write FB > messages on your mobile browser anymore IIRC). LibreJS may also warn its > users with most of these services' sites. Is this already Free Software > unfriendly? >
This is also a question of narrative: such behaviour has traditionally been viewed as social engineering[1] for the purpose of a privilege escalation[2] attack. There is debate[3] in the Mozilla bug tracker about sites behaving like this, could you submit the Facebook example there? Regards, Daniel 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation 3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375427 _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
