@paintedsky I had looked into it when my adblocker stopped working a few years back.
They had literally a set of DIVs with the individual letters of SPONSORED in them, with randomly generated, but hidden, letters. Which weren't 'hidden' or 'display:none', no, they were offset vertically by -100px.
How did I get around it? I targeted all the parent DIVs, grabbed the text of it's children, and saw if they could make the word 'sponsored' out of it.
@paintedsky 😂 oh, frameworks. I'm a super vanilla guy when it comes to web dev stuff. That's why I only do it as a hobby. That shit drives me nuts. Like, I'm not learning fuckin React. Even Tailwind I'm dragging my heels. Am I gonna just do my own CSS? Probably. Website lag. It's like fuckin Flash sites all over again
@paintedsky what renderer are using? If you use canvas kit it really only generates a handful of web components. 99% of the ui is rendered using canvas.
The html renderer is much slower and not recommended anymore.
Granted the canvaskit renderer isn’t necessarily “fast” by today’s standards, but for most applications that call for flutter, it’s good enough in my experience. (If you write your code right)
@paintedsky I don't think it's trying to be deliberately obfuscated, more that the way Flutter is engineered (Skia, etc) follows its own pixel perfect rendering, and the HTML output is an afterthought, full of hacks to make it look the same. The UI constructs used by Flutter don't match HTML/CSS well.
I think for the longest time it was even canvas based, and it's only now starting to use HTML elements. But I wouldn't bet on it getting much better; the main focus seems to be standalone apps.
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