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Discussion on: Why do some popular websites have cryptic page sources

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yellow1912

One added benefit is to make it diffult for the script kiddies to write automation tools to extract data or automate spamming behaviors.

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Vianney Mixtur

Good point
I am actually trying to parse a table that is made entirely of Divs like in the example above.
What would you recommend to achieve that goal ? Is there any tool that could help me ?

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David Babalola

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sickpup1212 • Edited

yeah I've always figured obfuscation was the most likely motivation. I've seen what WYSIWYG code and the like turns out like, and that's probably also in large part buy to how dynamic they need to be, but it also occurred to me that if they shipped any html to potential customers that was relatively easy to reuse/rework/customize/manipulate while maintaining functionality they may have a hard time selling anything.

for twitter and other big name tech its hard to for me to attribute much probability to inexperience, laziness or anything unintentional. although I guess I could be wrong about that. seems to me its mostly abstraction and optics. trying to make it seem like way more then it is just ends up being way more in the end. or they have some kind of dope unreleased tech that explains in part for some of the gib.