Hulu Munging HTML With JS To Protect Content
N!NJA writes “Hulu has started encoding the html that they send to people’s browsers, and then decoding it using javascript before rendering it. […] They then run the character stream through a series of javascript functions to convert it back in to plain text before pushing it in to your browser using DHTML. That’s quite a lot of effort just for fun, so I assume that is to stop screen scrapers from parsing content.” I really can’t understand all this effort. Boxee displayed the Hulu advertising perfectly. I suspect Alec Baldwin is to blame.
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