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From: | alexus / dotcommon |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] DuckDuckGo's JavaScript |
Date: | Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:31:55 +0000 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail |
On 2015-03-10 04:50, Svetlana A. Tkachenko wrote:
DuckDuckGo serves users with non-free JavaScript. By including DuckDuckGo, GNU IceCat and GNUzilla point users to a non-free program. (With GNU IceCat and GNUzilla, this non-free JavaScript is blocked by LibreJS, and the website functions in limited mode. But users can disable LibreJS if they want, and they may also want to tell a friend about DuckDuckGo; both such use-cases would make people use non-free software and it would be GNUzilla's fault for showing the user that the non-free program exists.)
DDG has also an HTML mode, so the trick is using: https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q= instead of: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The DDG search plugin engine included with IceCat (the file duckduckgo.xml in the sources) is using this HTML mode.
Should we still keep DuckDuckGo in the default list of search plugins?
Not sure, but maybe we can keep DDG in the list with a notice about using its HTML mode (and not the javascript mode).
Regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon
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