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I think they're more often convinced that their thing is just worth stealing. There are many such things.

• crazygringo 2y ago
  Exactly this. Apps and websites get copied all the time. Somebody throws up a duplicate with ads and steals your traffic and search rankings and customers and whatever. Adding code to prevent your product from working when it's not on the right app/domain, and obfuscating your code to obfuscate those checks, can be sadly necessary. It doesn't need to defeat a determined attacker, but just be hard enough they'll spend their time cloning something else instead. I speak from experience...
  • t-3 2y ago
    Choosing to distribute your secret sauce using tools that require source to be transmitted is kind of silly if you want to keep the source secret.
    • recursive 2y ago
      Secret is nice to have. But in some cases publishing is the whole point.