Notices by Joe :fedora: :debian: :ferris: (joe_0237@fosstodon.org)

@thelinuxEXP sponsored, of course

@thelinuxEXP seems like a strange switch direction

Google Docs exports automatically infected with tracking links:

txt - unaffected
html + AFFECTED
odt - unaffected
pdf - unaffected
epub + AFFECTED
rtf - unaffected
docx - unaffected

sample web html <a> tag:
<a class="c4" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wikimediafoundation.org/&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1696089933805520&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ypOvslXzoEGwdryv4bFyJ">https://wikimediafoundation.org/</a>

sample epub xhtml <a> tag:
<a class="c5" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wikimediafoundation.org/&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1696087392161966&amp;usg=AOvVaw1v4xpIFWD9GYkMFifXd1uo">https://wikimediafoundation.org/</a>

Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.

This @fsf blog post is a great one, read it.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/parents-domestic-violence-victims-lawyers-read-about-people-who-protect-their-privacy-with-free-software

There are a lot of people who think that we must be criminals for not wanting big tech to read our conversations.