[pkg-otr-team] [OpenITP Dev] OTR.im launch

[u]

Ohai,

Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On 04/27/2014 05:19 PM, Jurre van Bergen wrote:
>> On 04/24/2014 06:54 PM, Holmes Wilson wrote:
>>> 3) Buttons along the side of the page to share it on Facebook and Twitter. It might even be worth using the Facebook message dialog, so you can send a message to Facebook friends directly telling them to get OTR:  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog
>> I have a bit of an ethical dilemma with Facebook. However, at the end of
>> the day, it's the user who makes the decision to be on facebook and to
>> share and not me. I'll make a ticket for this!
> 
> It's not the user's decision if you include code or images or do any
> sort of remote requests to facebook in the page itself.  In that case,
> the site operator is leaking the user's browsing patterns to facebook if
> they're logged in.  If you're making a facebook link to allow people to
> more-easily be tracked by centralized surveillance organizations, please
> don't pull in third-party images or javascript.  that way, it's at least
> opt-in instead of opt-out.

The idea was anyway *not* to include any 3rd party scripts or images,
but simply include links (these exist, too, at FB and Twitter for
sharing stuff).

However, the few people who answered to the question on the IRC channel
were not in favor.

*If* simple links were used, instead of 3rd party scripts, then the
choice to use these links would absolutely be up to the user.

So the remaining question is if this adds any value to the website. Do
people use these buttons at all? And if so, which people? Are they the
target audience or not?

Any other thoughts on this idea by Holmes?

cheers,
u.