Most JS shipping on the web is minified, with variables renamed to random names, you can’t just open it and search for maliciousFunction.
Also their claim of Twitch doing network sniffing in a browser should be impossible unless Twitch has found and is actively exploiting a security flaw in modern web browsers.
Technically, twitch could sniff all the traffic exchanged with their user. It would be pointless as they already know the content of the transmission, though
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Most JS shipping on the web is minified, with variables renamed to random names, you can’t just open it and search for
maliciousFunction.Also their claim of Twitch doing network sniffing in a browser should be impossible unless Twitch has found and is actively exploiting a security flaw in modern web browsers.
Technically, twitch could sniff all the traffic exchanged with their user. It would be pointless as they already know the content of the transmission, though