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Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by bwindels on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:22AM (#27527227)
Is this extension trustworthy? It is "recommended" and says GPL3 but there is no link to the source code anywhere.
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Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by tcit on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:27AM (#27527271)
The author doesn't publish the extension sources. https://reddit.com/comments/bru6wd/comment/eohtox3
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Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by grey_earthling on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:41AM (#27527363)
Their argument is that the extension as it's distributed is essentially a zip file containing the source code.
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Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by cratermoon on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:29PM (#27531836)
I don't think that's quite in compliance with GPL3, but I'm not a lawyer. The bundled release artifact doesn't allow someone to build the extension, and I think GPL3 takes that into account. If I have a Java program, I have the bytecode, and unless it's been run through and obfuscator, I can pretty easily recreate the Java code. But the GPL3 doesn't count that as compliant.
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