I've been thinking a lot about how to keep AI From scraping my webpage. After a lot of useless crap, I ended up with a custom font made from my handwriting using font crafter which isn't really useful in this endeavor, but I like it so I'm keeping it. I then converted it to .svgs thinking I could make a whole alphabet of .svg files and then built a quick and dirty JavaScript that outputted:
<img src="[name of letter file].svg">
as I typed so I could just copy paste it into an HTML file. But then I realized that was way too many images to load and would make the page slow and annoying. Finally, I just downloaded the .ttf, installed it and am using Word to type this then I'll screencap it and post it as an image. I think the font will stop any OCR abilities they develop for a bit anyway. I don't know why I'm doing this. It started as something I was curious about. I wondered how to stop AI scrapers from accessing content without Cloudflare etc. And robots.txt doesn't actually do anything. I kept trying to think of creative solutions but ended up with the first thought I had which was basically make an image file that would be hard for machines to read. Thing is, it's also hard for humans to read.
Anyways, this won't do shit. We're all in a prison of the billionaires' making and we cannot escape. But I did waste hours of my life learning about stuff I don't really care about and making this goofy font. So, that's something, I guess.
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