- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Surely these types of tools are unneeded since all the big tech companies all definitely follow the law!
Surely these types of tools are unneeded since all the big tech companies all definitely follow the law!
Apparently, and I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, the AI scrapers gather their data from the page source rather than from what we users see on the screen. The text in the page source when using this font will appear to be gibberish. When the font is applied, the glyph substitution occurring between the source and the browser, the text is transformed into the author’s intended verbiage for the user to read.
But more simple than that. If I’m not mistaken this is simply a font where A is mapped to P and B to V and so on. The fonts we use all are saved by the comp as character codes. Fonts are just a map of glyphs.
Wingdings is the mist famous and oldest case of a font where any letter typed comes out as something completely different.
So they have mapped a font where the letters are jumbled, and used the map with a script to encode the pages content to the same cypher. Loading the page with anything but the font that draws the intended letter instead of the letter that is verbatim on the page results in garbage.