The year is Anno Domini MMXXIII.
The Paper of Record produces news, but wraps it in megabytes of JavaScript to keep the poors from becoming incidentally informed.
What cover story is floated?
In part, that it is necessary, in browsers with pervasive support for Web Crypto[1], to include a userland SHA-256 hashing routine.
In truly dark ages, such barbarism is considered normal.
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@slightlyoff Wait, so they're encrypting their plain text content and then using Javascript to decrypt it client-side to prevent html scrapers from easily accessing the text?
Diabolical.
@LouisIngenthron Nah, it's not half that smart. This nonsense is just there to do a GraphQL dance for subscribers that want to generate gift links. Why is any of this on the client? WHO KNOWS!?