www/philosophy javascript-trap.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       18/03/30 21:03:29

Modified files:
        philosophy     : javascript-trap.html 

Log message:
        Add more lines about web site surveillance.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/javascript-trap.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.62&r2=1.63

Patches:
Index: javascript-trap.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/javascript-trap.html,v
retrieving revision 1.62
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -b -r1.62 -r1.63
--- javascript-trap.html        1 Jan 2018 06:22:02 -0000       1.62
+++ javascript-trap.html        31 Mar 2018 01:03:28 -0000      1.63
@@ -50,7 +50,13 @@
 <p>In addition to being nonfree, many of these programs are malware
 because
 they <a href="http://github.com/w3c/fingerprinting-guidance/issues/8";>snoop
-on the user</a>.</p>
+on the user</a>.  Even nastier, some sites use services which record
+<a 
href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-personal-data-by-session-replay-scripts/";>all
+the user's actions while looking at the page</a>.  The services
+supposedly &ldquo;redact&rdquo; the recordings to exclude some
+sensitive data that the web site shouldn't get.  But even if that
+works reliably, the whole purpose of these services is to give the web
+site other personal data that it shouldn't get.</p>
 
 <p>Browsers don't normally tell you when they load JavaScript
 programs.  Some browsers have a way to turn off JavaScript entirely,
@@ -261,7 +267,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/01/01 06:22:02 $
+$Date: 2018/03/31 01:03:28 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>