Rens Oliemans <[email protected]> writes:

> The links that I convert are:
>     - youtube.com / youtu.be
>     - [gist.]github.com. Excluding github.com/u/r/issues, since gothub does
>     not support issues. gothub also doesn't support pull requests, but Worg
>     does not link to a pull request page, so I ignored that.
>     - [old.]reddit.com

I am discussing this with other GNU people and I got some clarification
from RMS which pages are considered harmful and which are not.

In particular, someone pointed that *old*.reddit.com pages can actually
be viewed without JS. They still try to load non-free JS, but do not
become dysfunctional (you can still read posts and comments in full,
even from M-x eww).

RMS told me that as long as pages can be viewed and otherwise used for
their intended purpose without non-free JS, it is OK to links to such
pages.

So, for reddit specifically, we can simply transform them prepending
"old.".

I suspect that we might even get away with gist.github.com as long as we
do not care about comments to the gist.

Also, for github issues, I suspect that we can instead point to the
author email. Most of the uses are *also* listing the main github page,
so link to issues is really redundant there.

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