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2 years agoeasier to have posts be given tags
If this is not being done automatically by the server by analysing the content, people will not use tags, or use irrelevant tags, or fill it with tens of tags like Instagram’s early days or whatever else I cannot think of now. But I think it is not easy to work as intended


This is not correct. Your browser will submit “shark” and then the backend server will do whatever hashing is required and after that it will compare the hashes. If hashing was happening in the browser that would mean that an attacker would be be able to attack by using just the hashes of the passwords, not the passwords themselves. Also in such case, the browser would had been responsible to do the required salting which in turn would make it pointless as it would had been known.