I don't know if this website specifically did it, but a lot of other similar websites provide such services in a very bad way, for example base64encode.org and base64decode.org send your data to the server instead of using JS, and no one knows what they do with it.
I do understand that some still prefer browsers with JS disabled, but a website could probably detect this and default to in-browser processing, while reserving server-side to those edge cases.
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I don't know if this website specifically did it, but a lot of other similar websites provide such services in a very bad way, for example base64encode.org and base64decode.org send your data to the server instead of using JS, and no one knows what they do with it.
I do understand that some still prefer browsers with JS disabled, but a website could probably detect this and default to in-browser processing, while reserving server-side to those edge cases.
That's surprising. Isn't that a quite famous service? Is there a service implemented using only clientside js without sending?
famous? not sure about that, but they have the best SEO so it's always the goto.
There is sort of a file sharing community in Korea, and it is customary to encode links in base64 there.
I'm not really sure why they do that. It's not even a tech-related community. Anyway, they tell you to use base64encode.org.