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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s how the web worked before minifiers, so kinda but not really.

You just have comments and original variable/function names.

I’m sure someone will argue this helps scrapers or hackers, but really it’s not that big of a deal.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It help users that make websites styles!

Eg. I have a discord style for fixing their bullshit

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 13 hours ago

Anyone capable of doing damage already knows how to format and read minified code anyway. I do it in prod all the time when I want to test something with an override, which causes the source map to become invalid.