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This blogger lets the reader know they don't know wtf they are talking about in the first fucking paragraph.
The text scambling techniques to stop AI do not affect the normal readable font on the page and doesn't stop text to voice readers. π€¦ββοΈ
[citation needed]
Gonna need more than a confident declaration to convince people potentially impacted by this. Provide it... or shut up.
Try looking up how ShieldFont actually works. Or look at the code yourself; it's open source.
I'm looking their demo website https://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.
What stops you is the javascript puzzle, I agree it's not worth it for the inconvenience but the idea is at least interesting