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Presumably the font will represent letters to look like a different letter, making it not useful to LLMs scraping the site but useful for visual readers. This
by yifanl 2y ago
Presumably the font will represent letters to look like a different letter, making it not useful to LLMs scraping the site but useful for visual readers.
This would have detrimental effects to people who use screen readers or have their own stylesheets of course.
- WillAdams 2y agoFor that it would make more sense to run a routine which replaces letters with visually identical glyphs at different encoding points.
- palmotea 2y ago> For that it would make more sense to run a routine which replaces letters with visually identical glyphs at different encoding points. It seems like that would be pretty easily defeatable with the similar mapping to the one used to do the replacement.
- WillAdams 2y agoYes, but it's one more hurdle for them.
- chefandy 2y agoThat would only stymie the smallest-time players. Things like sideways text in margins or rotated table column headers are common enough that these have been solved problems for decades. Breaking the text down into specific elements and handling it differently or ignoring it altogether based on context and content is trivial.