Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> writes:
Ben Finney <ben+freesoftware@benfinney.id.au> writes:
The website won't operate properly without non-free code running in the browser. If you don't trust YouTube to run programs on your computer, that's a bad option.
What non-free code is this?
Non-free programs downloaded by your browser, from the website and other third-party websites as specified by the page. <URL:https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html> Enabling HTML5 video on YouTube means you avoid non-free Flash programs. It still requires you run non-free JavaScript programs. <URL:https://documentfreedom.org/rmflash/html5-how.en.html> The LibreJS effort is the beginning of a way out of this; we're not out yet. <URL:https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/> -- \ “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is | `\ required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long | _o__) run.” —Henry David Thoreau | Ben Finney