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Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

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Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

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Post by Bender » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
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Post by simon84 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

Clever trick, but not great for accessibility and screen readers.

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Post by satvikpendem » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

They'll just use OCR directly.

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Post by i18nagentai » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 3:42 AM UTC

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Post by zzo38computer » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 3:49 AM UTC

Working with screen readers is not the only possible problem. It is not very good if you disable loading fonts, or if you disable CSS as well, or using a browser that does not load fonts, etc.

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