I considered putting up an "unlocked" and deobfuscated version to help people out, but the thing that keeps me from doing so is that the author may not fully understand what the GPL means and I don't want them to think I'm pulling the rug out from under the consultant gig they seem to be starting.
If you're reading this: GPL2 means anyone is free to copy, modify, and redistribute your software. That means that they can unminify it, give functions meaningful names, and yes even remove the localhost restriction you've put in place seemingly in an attempt to monetize.
If your goal is to make money off of this, I suggest you take down the repo and put up a new one under a closed source license. You can still distribute the minified file for people to test with, but people would no longer have both legal and ethical justification to release a more "friendly" version.
If your goal is not to monetize or maintain control for some other reason, then I would suggest uploading the unminified version as it will make it much easier for people to contribute back.
(And to be clear, anyone who has already downloaded the repository has GPL rights to that code forever, you cannot (to the best of my knowledge) revoke that license. So if you do see an easier to use and less restrictive fork, well, you live and learn I guess, nothing else can be done there.)