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@@ -4,27 +4,24 @@ ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source
code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and
recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. Also their
trademark license restricts distribution in several ways incompatible
-with freedom 0. Icecat includes the following privacy protection
-features:
+with freedom 0.
-LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described
-in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.
+Icecat's additional privacy features are in form of browser addons.
+This SlackBuild unbundles them so that users can install the ones they
+want in the usual way:
-Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with
-many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
+* SpyBlock is a fork of Adblock Plus with extra privacy features.
-SpyBlock: Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and
-all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on
-Adblock Plus.
+* Https Everywhere automatically encrypts your communications with
+ many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
-AboutIceCat: Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to
-information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat,
-and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break
-websites.
+* HTML5 Video Everywhere enables popular video sites to use the
+ browser's built-in video player.
-Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of
-techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific
-characterisics of that particular instance (like what fonts are
-available in that machine). Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of
-being tracked this way, so the browser has to avoid giving away that
-kind of hints.
+* LibreJS blocks javascript scripts unless they are tagged as free
+ software [EXPERIMENTAL]
+
+* AboutIceCat adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to
+ information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat,
+ and checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break
+ websites. [COSMETIC]