Re: Free JavaScript alternatives

[isf]

El 30/12/2022 a las 23:06, jimgarrett escribió:
>     Hi List,
>
>     I'll pose my question first, and then give some back story.  I'm trying
>     to get a non-profit interested in substituting Free for proprietary
>     JavaScript and feel I could use more first-hand knowledge, as I am not
>     a software or web developer.
>       * Is it correct that JavaScript is limited only by what the browser
>         allows?  Thus, JavaScript can't access memory outside the browser
>         or write a file (other than a cookie) without permission, but could
>         transmit information to any internet location.  Correct?
If the program is nonfree we can't realy know what type of the access 
have to your computing, for that reason when we run nonfree program we 
lose the control of ours liberty. Exist proves of nonfree programs 
writed in javascript who track every action of the user see it for 
yourself: 
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-personal-data-by-session-replay-scripts/ 


>       * Where should I direct someone to try to find Free JavaScript
>         libraries to fulfill a specific feature?  Or is this simply too
>         broad a question to be useful?

As Richard Stallman say, a good website don't run programs in the 
computer of others, for that reason I recommend have a defense against 
this debility. Use LibreJS[1] and JShelter[2] are the basic's of the web 
browsing in freedom. There exists different ways to distribute 
javascript programs via browser that is good: 
https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html . Anyway 
my recommendation is this: if your webpage can work without javascript, 
do it without it.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
[2]: https://jshelter.org/>
>     Here's the back story.  I heard about the organization Justdiggit and
>     went to their web site to donate:  [1]https://justdiggit.org.  Their
>     privacy/cookie notice is surprisingly forward, and essentially screams
>     to me "we will sell your data".  Well, points for honesty.  I
>     declined.  I was using the "Abrowser" Firefox derivative on Trisquel
>     and the site shows almost no content with that browser.  I visited the
>     site with stock Firefox, looked up contact information, and sent an
>     e-mail saying I would love to donate but I didn't want to be tracked.
>
>     Miraculously (to my mind), one of their team sent a reply e-mail saying
>     they understood my desire not to be tracked and would like to work with
>     me.  I imagine that means "help me get my browser to work", not
>     necessarily to re-engineer their web site.  I responded that it was in
>     fact probably non-Free JavaScript that made the site fail.  I'd like to
>     be prepared to speak of many horrible things that proprietary
>     JavaScript could be doing, and to make a suggestion for where their web
>     developers could go to find Free tools.
>
>     This is all terribly unlikely to have any immediate impact, but it's a
>     vehicle to alert some people about these issues.  Thanks in advance!
Let me recommend you this article, maybe your read it, but inside are 
more proves than nonfree JavaScript problems: 
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

My brother want start a website, but his website can't be readable 
without running nonfree programs in javascript. Im trying to help him 
saying why is bad that type of website, technical problems with old 
computers and freedom issues, but he don't care a lot for his own 
freedom as I do.

In short words, is a hard battle, against the nonfree software.

>     Jim Garrett
>
> References
>
>     1. https://justdiggit.org/
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