JWTs are designed to be readable by the client. That is useful for debugging, but it also means a real token can contain user IDs, email addresses, roles, scopes and expiry data that should not be pasted into a random online decoder. The practical distinction is simple: decoding a JWT is not de...

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/wendygostudio/decode-jwt-payloads-locally-what-the-claims-tell-you-and-dont-9ih)

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