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by Red_Leaves_Flyy 2379 days ago
As far as I'm aware most websites don't have (enforceable) eulas that state what parsers can and can't be used. If I want to read the binary stream from the wire that's my prerogative.

If you have a website that shows a blank page, to everyone that doesn't send a specific token to your webserver, and I discover that I can view said page by manipulating the dom with any old browsers console I am not violating your copyright. You willingly sent that information.

To bring this home, if I can read an article visually obscured by code that has otherwise been given to me in an unencrypted form I am not violating copyright. If a company has a problem with people seeing everything said company sends to them then they're woefully ignorant of how browsers work. The solution is to stop including the article. Rightfully, this kills seo rankings.