Okay, I probably was a bit unclear in my question. I am not in any way considering using DRM, such as copy protection, login walls, online activation etc. I despise it and - as you both - consider it useless.
I was asking specifically about HTML5 / JS games, since per definition, the game is the source code, because of how browsers work. This is obviously not the case for compiled code.
And as for the questions, they are simply:
Do you people prevent others from reading the code, and if yes, then how? (Obfuscate with eg webpack or JScrambler, Convert to native app, “compile” with eg. Ionic, React Native or NativeScript?)
Does the itch.io platform have any best-practices or guidelines on the topic? (I can’t find any, so expect “no”)
If a user buys a JS / HTML5 game, then by definition they own the game, and Itch.io allows them to download the source code locally. After having done this, nothing prevents a user from viewing / editing / redistributing that same code.
In case you want to protect your HTML5 / JS code, what are some preferred, standard, Itch.io compliant ways to do so? Obfuscation? Legal disclaimer in code? Bake into OS specific executable?
