>I'm more interested in the reason for this kind of obfuscation (and no, I don't think it's just to protect against bots, as there are many ways to do that). s

>I'm more interested in the reason for this kind of obfuscation (and no, I don't think it's just to protect against bots, as there are many ways to do that). see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748681 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749282 all of those can't really work if the javascript payload is easily comprehensible, because you can just write your own implementation in python or whatever.