From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Web browsing (was Re: Concurrency, again) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <9D64B8EA-DB52-413D-AE6A-264416C391F3@iotcl.com> <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> <83twckekqq.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvi9a3mh.fsf@gnu.org> <20161012165911.58437154@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161012173314.799d1dc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360owaj2s.fsf@gnu.org> <20161013092701.77461800@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161017105345.2f255760@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83y41nx8l6.fsf@gnu.org> <20161017123459.5ded9408@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161018162908.316a8b38@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161019164415.56833a42@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476987090 690 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2016 18:11:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 20:11:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHo8-0006Sq-0h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:11:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHoA-0007dD-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhZ-0001aP-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhY-0003SX-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhR-0003OQ-95; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhQ-0000yh-Ao; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <20161019164415.56833a42@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208544 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > relatively straightforward. State of the art is blacklisting or > whitelisting various pages and scripts, and I think it will be pretty > easy to put in such mechanisms given all the hooks the rest of the > functionality needs. I hope it is relatively straightforward -- but we shouldn't put it off! We should not release an Emacs browser which is vulnerable to this sort of mistreatment; rather, we should attend to this issue in the first release where it is needed. What about EWW? Is it vulnerable to any of the tracking tags? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.