On 26/07/17 10:53, Max Mehl wrote:
Hi Jonas,
# Jonas Oberg [2017-07-26 10:37 +0200]:
Some services are Free Software unfriendly and harm your privacy.
Are there any services we list which don't work with Free Software? If so, I think it's best to state that:
Some services don't work with Free Software or harm your privacy.
If all services we list can be connected to with Free Software, then we might well just shorten it to:
Some services harm your privacy.
Good point but not easy to answer. All services can be viewed with a Free Software browser but e.g. Facebook tries to convince you of downloading the non-free Messenger app (you cannot even write FB messages on your mobile browser anymore IIRC). LibreJS may also warn its users with most of these services' sites. Is this already Free Software unfriendly?
This is also a question of narrative: such behaviour has traditionally been viewed as social engineering[1] for the purpose of a privilege escalation[2] attack.
There is debate[3] in the Mozilla bug tracker about sites behaving like this, could you submit the Facebook example there?
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation 3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375427