• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Hey let’s not lie to ourselves… most of those megabytes of JS are there to disable the copy functionality for anyone browsing our site.

    Why? … reasons. Someone in marketing said a thing once.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 hours ago

      I once had to add in custom tab behavior because a green screen used to work in a specific way in an ordering page. The IBM system that we replaced only had a couple of users but was responsible for something like 30-40% of all orders in a small company. So in it went! Fun times.