[zwegner]

While the comments here are almost universally negative, this actually isn't that bad of an idea. Not just because of the freedom aspect, though I'm generally fairly principled about that--I'm more concerned about security and tracking. I've been increasingly paranoid in the post-Snowden era about this kind of stuff, using NoScript, RequestPolicy, and other plugins. And guess what... it's a huge pain in the ass. So many sites are broken, and I have to whitelist sites/external frameworks/CDNs quite often just to read simple articles. And even after all this effort, I know that I could still be running malicious code. I probably shouldn't care so much, but it's an irritating possibility. The implementation here isn't necessarily the best solution, but the idea of limiting javascript to trivial functionality could make things for the paranoid/security-conscious a lot easier.

[Alupis]

I, for one, am growing tired of the entire "Libre + something" nomenclature.

[seba_dos1]

Great. But why are you saying this in thread about something completely unrelated?

It's hardly "redoing an existing project". It's about giving user control on what he/she executes on his/her machine. It's just NoScript with automatic whitelisting of free software, nothing more.