>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).
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.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748681 and 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.