Why does Google add while(1); at the beginning of JSON responses?
Hi everyone! I'm a beginner frontend developer and recently noticed a strange thing when working with Google API. When I make an AJAX request to their servers, the response comes back as JSON, but there's a strange construct before it: `while(1);`. For example, the response looks like this:
```javascript
while(1);
{"name": "John", "age": 30}
```
At first I thought it was some kind of error or bug. But then I noticed it happens consistently. My JavaScript code stopped working because `JSON.parse()` throws an error due to this prefix.
Here's how I was trying to get the data:
```javascript
fetch('https://example.com/api/data')
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
```
Naturally, this doesn't work because the response is not valid JSON. Can someone explain why Google does this and how to properly handle such responses?
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