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to execute arbitrary javascript served by them, as this is the basis for being
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able to control one's browsing. Some fixes we wrote and used with Hachette,
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all freely licensed and
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\href{https://git.koszko.org/hachette_fixes_tmp}{publicly available},
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are shown here. A site browsing attempt with scripts blocked is always
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presented for comparison. Various browsers (Parabola Iceweasel,
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(Ungoogled) Chromium, LibreWolf, Tor Browser) have been used in these examples.
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\section{OpenCores}
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On OpenCores' site it used to be impossible to view a list of projects.
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The following screenshot illustrates what the website looks like with js
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disabled.
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\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{opencores_broken.png}
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A quick and simple snippet of freely-licensed, user-controlled code injected by
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Hachette solves the problem.
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\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{opencores_fixed_0.png}
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\section{Google Sheets}
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While Google Sheets can be downloaded as .xlsx files and viewed without
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surrendering to Google's spyware that runs in the browser, many people don't
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know how to do this. Here's a sample unusable spreadsheet on Google:
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The following is a version fixed by Hachette. Scrolling through the initial part
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of the table is now possible and a download button for an .xlsx version is
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available. Unused UI elements are removed.
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Here is an example of a more complex spreadsheet with a few dozen individual
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sheets in it - all made easily downloadable by Hachette.
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\section{Google Drive}
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An attempt to view a Google Drive file ends with a blank page.
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features a download button.
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\section{Phoronix benchmarks}
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constitute part of an article. Any user who decides to block all scripts
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either over software freedom or after seeing Google Analytics being used on
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phoronix.com will only see a short text.
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A simple, few-line Hachette fix re-adds the benchmark images.
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\section{Stack Exchange}
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\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{stackexchange_broken.png}
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The following shows a fixed version. It is worth noting that we are committed
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not to hide important information from users. In cases like this we make sites
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operable by making a dialog closable, not by hiding it entirely.
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\section{ABC News}
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Someone who thinks Hachette is only useful for making sites work without
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proprietary javascript is definitely wrong. Why not make a custom interface
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for a website that (to some extent) worked even before? Consider the ABC News
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And now a version for minimalists. Let your fingers take a break from scrolling!
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accessible. The following site misuses heading tags and lacks semantic markup:
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\section{Controlling the browsing}
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Replacing site content would give no improvement over the initial state of
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affairs if the user was not in control. But in the case of Hachette this is not
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an issue. The (still provisional) interface of the settings page allows easy
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editing of payloads to inject.
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\end{document}
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