Just take the string as bytes and hash it ffs

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    24 days ago

    It helps against the server being able to read the password, so a bad actor (either the website itself or after a hack) could read your password. Which isn’t bad if you’re using good password hygiene with random passwords, but that sadly is not the norm.

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        24 days ago

        For that particular website yes, but a salted client side hash is worthless on a different website.

        Edit: plus even unsalted it would only work if the algorithm is the same and less iterations are done