flathub-infra / linux-store-frontend

A web application to browse and install applications present in Flatpak repositories. Powers https://www.flathub.org
Apache License 2.0
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make flathub.org show basic information without javascript #219

Open ian-kelling opened 4 years ago

ian-kelling commented 4 years ago

Repro: Browse to https://flathub.org/ without javascript enabled

expected: The page displays basic useful information.

Actual: The page displays just a spinner and an icon. I view source to see if the javascript is safe to enable, and there is google analytics and motomo tracking embedded in the page. There's no information about how to opt out of this invasive tracking. There's also a bunch of minified proprietary javascript I have no idea what its doing.

Please make it so viewing flathub.org not require running nonfree software in the form of javascript. One solution would be to provide the source code and a license, see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html.