In a game of cat and mouse...

..the (optical) mouses always win:

https://veeenex.github.io/posts/reverse-engineering-streamov/

Anti-debugging code in JS. We have truly reached a new level of insanity.

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Better question: why don't browsers do anything to stop it?

Of course that's a rhetorical question. Because "modern" browsers are meant to dumb down and herd the sheeple so Big Tech can fleece and squeeze the most $$$ out of them, not empower users to consume content in the way they desire.