Hi Jonas,
Jonas Oberg jonas@fsfe.org writes:
By and large, I believe *where* a certain piece of code runs is immaterial to the question, and what matters is the interface the user of a service is subject to.
Let's imagine for a second that Google and Facebook rewrote their frontend to use only CSS/HTML, and avoid JavaScript. Would that magically make their service more respecting of my freedom? I do not believe so. It would still be a proprietary service.
I agree with you, but I see multiple different questions involved here: 1) Is it Free Software? 2) Do I control my data? 3) Is it ok to execute client-side code (in order to see information)?
So what you describe would satisfy 1 and 3, but Facebook would still process my data in a way I may disagree with. This is a privacy-related question, though, not a Free Software question.
It would still be a proprietary service.
I am not quite sure I would call it that, though. It might even be a free service then that locks in my data.
Happy hacking! Florian