Code has practical use only with nonfree service.
FSF guidelines for systems forbids to "steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so."
That sentence is however part of a paragraph talking only about locally installed/installable software, and therefore is assumed to not cover e.g. ways to access external services which are not freely licensed.
whoops, sorry: wrong package!
Unfortunately, Pocket is again included: Seems Firefox changed between 60 an 68 to embed Pocket in the core instead of providing it as a hidden system.
Correction: This _is_ a freedom issue, not because it (optionally) uses nonfree (or rather closed-protocol) service but because (optionall, when configuring to use that protocol) it downloads nonfree software.
So this issue seems to boil down to a wishlist item "bring in yacy to PureOS". PureBrowser has no leverage over what public search engines serve with regard to proprietary or non-proprietary javascript.
This is not (by our definition) a freedom issue: It does not involve installing non-free software locally.
This is not a freedom issue (by our definition), since it does not involve installing non-free software locally.
This is not a freedom issue, since it does not involve installing non-free software locally.
This is not a freedom issue, since it does not involve installing non-free software locally.
My recommendation for this would be only privacy-respecting choices:
I recommend https://www.findx.com/ and https://gigablast.com/, they are 100% free software.
This is resolved in gnome-initial-setup >= 3.28.0-2pureos3
While according to Mozilla the source code will be published, and according to news websites the code was in fact published on https://github.com/Pocket, I can't find the backend code anywhere at all.
So the service indeed is non-free at the moment.
Fixed package released - should enter green within 24 hours.
package uploaded and entered NEW queue 31 Oct 2017 09:03, so just awaits approval to enter archive