c/technology@lemmy.world · inari@piefed.zip · 21 Aug 2026 08:50

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Andrew's WebLog Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea

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@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 Aug 2026 · edited

I’m looking their demo website shieldfont.org/demo/

It’s 100% scrappable. Nothing there stops me for scrapping the true text. It’s a very minor inconvenience at most. I would even argue that’s more of a pain for users and developers than for scrappers.

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- @Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 22 Aug 2026
  
  What stops you is the javascript puzzle, I agree it’s not worth it for the inconvenience but the idea is at least interesting
  
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