Yeah I'd also like to understand why they are doing this.
Everyone expects these sites to scrape as much personal information as possible (China did not invent that, they are following), but beyond that any additional imagined state-ran initiative would be server side, right? What is worth hiding in the front end beyond preventing people re-using their code? (which would be overkill to use a VM for, as light obfuscation would be enough)
For sure. Yet I'm not convinced America can take that too far. So I wonder if it is willing/wanting to lose the Silicon factories, and cause a giant technological reset
China would be at a massive disadvantage if it won Taiwan and lost the chip factories. That really would be a massive cold war, then.
Everyone expects these sites to scrape as much personal information as possible (China did not invent that, they are following), but beyond that any additional imagined state-ran initiative would be server side, right? What is worth hiding in the front end beyond preventing people re-using their code? (which would be overkill to use a VM for, as light obfuscation would be enough)