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Comment by maxwg

JS was never really obfuscated - it wasn't the goal of minification. Minifiers especially struggle with ES6 classes/etc, outputting code that is almost human readable.

Proper obfuscation libraries exist, typically at the cost of a pretty notable amount of performance that I'd wager most are not willing to sacrifice

And like even the best of client-side DRM, everything can be reverse engineered. All the code has been downloaded to the user's machine. It's one of the (IMO terrible) excuses for the SaaSification of all software

parent maxwg 7 months ago

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