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minifying is just to decrease the size of the script and thus decreasing the time needed for loading it from the server
obfuscating the code is done to protect the code to some degree from beeing copied by others. You can't compile javascript into a binary form that prevents doing so (you can't compile any .Net applications in that regard neither) so in those cases obfuscation makes it harder to understand the code.

A small sample (consider this as a piece of pseudo code)
JavaScript
function foo() {
   // do foo
  var counter = 0;
  bar(counter);
}
function bar(var myParam) {
  // do something with myParam
  var somethingElse = myParam;
}


and obfuscate it to
JavaScript
function a() { 
   var b=0; 
   a(b); 
}
function a(var b) { 
   var c=b;
}


you don't really know what those function really do without having the full context of it, thus making it a lot harder to just copy a function out of the script "stealing" someone else's hard work.

So nothing shady about those (of course you could assume that malicious scripts will usually be obfuscated and minified to prevent user from easily detect what they are doing)
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