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This is self-imposed, owner-initiated DRM: it's software specifically to make your computer run fewer programs and be less useful, because it might hurt the owner to come to rely upon powerful non-free programs.
That's like saying that choosing not to go out for drinks is self-imposed house arrest. Nonsense.
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People who care more about the delusional ranting of Stallman than actually using any web service today? Oh yeah, using jquery is "non-trivial". What a load of crap.
Stallman talking about the web is like a Catholic priest talking about sexual intercourse: he has no practical experience with it and has no idea what he's talking about.
If you don't care about GPL/"as in speech"/etc then it's not for you, don't install it.
RMS is a zealot but he backs it up with his crazy ass longsoon unlocked bootloader laptop from china(and other unusual practices, look up his speech rider sometime)
"It blocks..." ah yes, freedom
If I'm an abstainer and I refuse to go drinking to a friend, does it mean I'm infringing his freedom to take me drinking, or would he infringe my freedom if he would keep bothering me about that against my will?
It's my freedom to say no. I won't use this extension, as I don't really mind non-free JS code being executed by my browser (aka I don't mind some beer from time to time), but I fully support and understand people who develop and use it. There's simply no other way to use the web and not use non-free software, aside of disabling JS completely.
"It blocks..." ah yes, freedom
So, you exercise freedom 0 (the freedom to run the program) and install GNU LibreJS as an extension into your free web browser.
Now your browser blocks programs from running in your browser unless they are free software or trivial in their nature.
Their definition of "non-trivial" includes using computed member expressions, so the following program is not supported: var greetings = {world: "Hello World"}; var subject = 'world'; console.log(greetings[subject]); This is zealotry in action, who do they think is going to use this?
That's only if there is no license block. If there's a license block, it takes it at face value. So if the code really is free, putting a license statement to that effect should be enough. I know people are going to say "what about minification", but c'mon, it's the 21st century, web servers know how to compress data streams when they send them and web browsers know how to decompress them. Minification for the purpos…
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...
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But how is the above sample 'unfree'?
Without a license, the assumption is that it is proprietary.
(as a consequence, my entire site won't work for users with this enabled)