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by emn13 1880 days ago
How exactly is a post-logged-in-app obfuscation supposed to be relevant to fraudsters that game the AdWords and reCaptcha etc?

Obviously people and corporations can choose to obfuscate; their prerogative. Doesn't mean it's effective nor wise in every instance, though, does it? Gmail is entirely free to waste effort and make its app slower and less (easily) maintainable, no question there.
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v8dev123 1880 days ago
The same fraudsters are gaming Gmail. Using web interface to send emails using Google Source IPs.

You might call them spammers but they are often fraudsters.

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emn13 1880 days ago
So your claim is that they can't automate the UI (well) via conventional browser automation tools, and can't access whatever endpoints gmail the client-side-app uses without being detected, but could if the code wasn't obfuscated?
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