On 16/11/2025 03:00, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
I do not think it is a good idea to use alternative front-ends as href
attribute in HTML as it is fetched from web server. E.g.
<https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql> identify specific resource. It is
up to users to install a browser extension that redirects some requests
to alternative sites they prefer and they trust. [...]
Do you have ideas how to implement what you propose?
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/declarativeNetRequest/Redirect>
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/declarativeNetRequest>
I have seen mentions of add-ons for alternative front-ends of some
popular sites. I have not tried to audit if their publishers can be
trusted, so I do not post links.
FSF policy is very specific about linking to websites that require
non-free JS:
I do not have a silver bullet to solve issues with current web. I just
think that following options are bad: avoiding links to popular sites
(or citing them without active links), using transient links instead of
well known URLs (even if I do not like general policy or specific
actions of owners or developers of some site). That is why I believe
that a site that do not have restrictions imposed by FSF may be a better
option (more friendly to users).
P.S. E.g. Org and Markdown out of the box do not have means to mark
links so that they should not increase rank of target pages. (For me
content of a page usually is more important than the site where it is
published to decide if special attributes should be applied to the link.)
