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Yeah, a bookmarklet should work pretty well too, although indeed needs the font installed locally or requests going out to another sever. The advantage of the extension in that sense is that it includes the font locally and has a keyboard shortcut. Someone else also mentioned that font, so I logged that here: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/obfuscate/-/issues/2
That sort of font is small enough that it could probably be encoded in the bookmarklet¹, and inserted into the target page's styling via a data Uri. Extra steps, but it would remove the need for the font to be locally available otherwise or requested from elsewhere. [1] I'm not sure want the limits on those are on modern browsers, the length that would work varied quite a bit back in the day. It was small in IE (<2K?…
Re: Show HN: Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text
#91Yeah good point! If I was starting this now I might've gone the bookmarklet route. Alas, I've got an extension now :)