• argarath@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    What if we made it so that the text that any use posts in the forum website has a bunch of nonsense letters mixed in between the letters they posted, but they’re all set to a REALLY small font or even taking no space thanks to those special characters, and colored in such a way to make them disappear into the background? That way when a person reads it makes sense but when a scraper gets it it’ll just be a jumbled useless mess!

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      4 hours ago

      People who use screen readers (like blind people) would be screwed. I like where your head is at, though!

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        49 minutes ago

        Built-in screen reader with a page designed for those who are hard of sight (is that the name?) with stuff like tab navigation that is actually useful, unlike most websites today! But yeah this “solution” is very hard to implement because it has a lot of things it’ll cause issues to that will need individual fixes for, thanks AI and scrapers!! Making the internet a hellhole sure is great!

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        11 hours ago

        True… But what if the forum had its own search engine that could ignore the anti-scraping stuff? The issue would be making a good search engine lol