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I have to wonder if there's any rules that would be violated by crap like this in the courts. It's 100% to prevent other lawyers from copy-pasting things, and t

by Operyl 6y ago

I have to wonder if there's any rules that would be violated by crap like this in the courts. It's 100% to prevent other lawyers from copy-pasting things, and that's absurd since it's defeated by OCR. It's extremely not accessible to the blind as a result.

netsharc 6y ago
It also makes it invisible to search engines. Google "Tesla COVID-19 lawsuit" and this PDF will not show up...
- Operyl 6y ago
  The curious thing is not _everything_ is obscured. Namely, `Attorneys for Plaintiff Tesla, Inc. ` isn't. Either is `Identifying Critical Infrastructure During Covid-19` So eventually this is probably going to get indexed by Google. EDIT: It is already! https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Identifying+Critical+Infrastructure+During+Covid-19%22+%22tesla%22&oq=%22Identifying+Critical+Infrastructure+During+Covid-19%22+%22tesla%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Identifying+Critical+Infr... EDIT 2: Why the downvotes already? I was pointing out that not all text is obfuscated in the text, namely COVID and Tesla are not. So it _is_ going to get indexed to some extent, it seems. If you want to downvote me, at least give me the courtesy to reply to your reasoning for it! EDIT 3: You can check it yourself. Open the PDF, ctrl+f tesla, the only sentence unobscured shows up. ctrl+f for Covid-19, only one unobfuscated occurrence..
  - danso 6y ago
    What Google is indexing appears to be the original and normally behaving PDF (before processing by wholemars.com):https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116056/2020/05/Tesla-Incorporated-v.-County-of-Alameda-5-9-20.pdf https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1... (the submitted link for this thread should probably be changed to the sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com hosted version of the PDF) But yes, I do agree that not all the text in the wholemars.com version was obfuscated. Seems like the metatext and boilerplate stuff was left as is in this processed version.

by Operyl 6y ago

netsharc 6y ago

It also makes it invisible to search engines. Google "Tesla COVID-19 lawsuit" and this PDF will not show up...

Operyl 6y ago
The curious thing is not _everything_ is obscured. Namely, `Attorneys for Plaintiff Tesla, Inc. ` isn't. Either is `Identifying Critical Infrastructure During Covid-19` So eventually this is probably going to get indexed by Google. EDIT: It is already! https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Identifying+Critical+Infrastructure+During+Covid-19%22+%22tesla%22&oq=%22Identifying+Critical+Infrastructure+During+Covid-19%22+%22tesla%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Identifying+Critical+Infr... EDIT 2: Why the downvotes already? I was pointing out that not all text is obfuscated in the text, namely COVID and Tesla are not. So it _is_ going to get indexed to some extent, it seems. If you want to downvote me, at least give me the courtesy to reply to your reasoning for it! EDIT 3: You can check it yourself. Open the PDF, ctrl+f tesla, the only sentence unobscured shows up. ctrl+f for Covid-19, only one unobfuscated occurrence..
- danso 6y ago
  What Google is indexing appears to be the original and normally behaving PDF (before processing by wholemars.com):https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116056/2020/05/Tesla-Incorporated-v.-County-of-Alameda-5-9-20.pdf https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1... (the submitted link for this thread should probably be changed to the sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com hosted version of the PDF) But yes, I do agree that not all the text in the wholemars.com version was obfuscated. Seems like the metatext and boilerplate stuff was left as is in this processed version.