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Good for us that there is no such thing as closed source client side logic in web applications (without installing extensions/plugins). You can only obfuscate.

• blowski 10y ago
  Not yet there isn't. But I can imagine it being made possible, in the same way as EME is allowing DRM on media.
• nindalf 10y ago
  That's true to an extent, except a compiled binary is much harder to decompile compared to what the author has done in the article with obfuscated JS. In future, I imagine more websites will use WebAssembly for this reason.
• oolongCat 10y ago
  Well, if they introduced some "special feature" that's available only when you install a certain plugin, I am sure millions of people will do it just because they can get the "special feature."
  • icebraining 10y ago
    Browsers won't support plugins for long (extensions yes, but those are as open as websites). Still, even a binary can be reverse engineered; you see it all the time.
• umanwizard 10y ago
  How exactly is that different from non-web applications? If you have the binary, you can reverse-engineer it.