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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by ilyazub on Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:29PM (#30292020)
Man, there're so many opportunities to reverse engineer the front-end. One example is the web scraping of a SPA without using a browser. Let's say [reverse-engineering Google Maps pagination][1][2].

People on /r/webscraping are constantly asking about web scraping of JS-rendered websites. As a front-end engineer, you have the experience of front-end debugging and using the browser dev tools. People who come to web scraping from the back-end world don't have this experience and are willing to learn.

[1]: https://medium.com/serpapi/how-we-reverse-engineered-google-... [2]: Disclaimer: I'm the author of this blog post

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