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Obfuscated JS can be re-hosted as is, and you can probably remove the ads with newly added JS code.

Or just visit the real site and use an ad blocker? Re-hosting it would obviously be copyright infringement.

Ad-blocking breaks the original site. A lot of functionality stops working properly.

Sure, seems only fair that if you can try to block ads, the app can try to detect ad blockers.

The problem is that AI can probably rewrite this JS de novo simply by observing its behavior and without de-obfuscating it.

Or just ask first AI to create specs and another AI to do clean room implementation?

This would be legal, by the way.

I think you would just end up with yet another slopcoded photoshop clone

are they tools to deobfuscate (covered) or just deobfuscated copies (not covered)?