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I imagine it could be largely mitigated by compression

I have a "compression" feature for my jsfuck fork: http://centime.org/jsfsck/

only worth it for long enough code, but then the browser is having a lot of trouble parsing the obfuscated version...

Still: "The js code of this page has been encoded (see source). Compression reduced it from 288k to 37k characters."