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Re:Anti-censorship Chrome extension removed for custom minif... by lxjum on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:09AM (#20792760)
Minification of scripts in an extension can only have nefarious purposes. It isn't worth it in terms of bandwidth.
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Re:Anti-censorship Chrome extension removed for custom minif... by zamadatix on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:06AM (#20793026)
You must not have read past the title:

- The linked page covers why they needed to do it

- A chromium bug report on that issue was linked (i.e. they tried to get the limit removed properly)

- "* Encode the rules as data rather than generated code" was the idea of a chromium developer in that bug report

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