Google Docs users, you are on notice: Code rewrite may break browser extensions
A common concern as web apps implement technologies that are less user-readable (and user-alterable) than traditional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is that the web platform becomes less open. There are certainly examples of that: Facebook obfuscates its webpage code to stymie client-side ad blocking; websites have so much JavaScript, much of it related to ads and tracking, that it is common to minify (compress) web code to hit load time targets; proposals like Google's Web Bundles have been criticized as anti-web; and WebAssembly bytecode, while it may be fast, isn't easy to decipher. Newman, how...
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