Disonnect.me is it still free software? Re: Security and Javascript

Nikos Roussos comzeradd at fsfe.org
Fri Jun 28 22:03:29 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 22:11 +0200, Hugo Roy wrote:
> Nikos Roussos <comzeradd at fsfe.org> a écrit :
> 
> >
> >
> >Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:32, mail at wespacker.me.uk said:
> >>
> >>> slightly more depth than Prism Break? I'd be happy to work on that
> >>
> >>Which uses JS to switch languages and track the user; why?
> >
> >How a language switch script tracks you? 
> >
> >Anyway, making an official statement for rejecting javascript
> >completely seems like neo-Luddism to me. 
> >
> >It would make more sense to promote Free Software Add-ons (like
> >disconnect.me) that help you block javascript code that tracks you. 
> >
> 
> We should check. I have been told disconnect.me has not published their source code in a while....
> 
> Sorry for diverging.

I haven't check its code, but the latest commit seems recent.

https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect





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