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This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content

techspot.com · 11dShare

A Brazilian creative studio called Seneda & Abrucio has teamed up with Playtype, a Copenhagen-based type foundry, to build something that doesn't rely on asking nicely to keep crawlers away. They call it ShieldFont, and it's essentially a free, open-source web font with a twist. It works by showing you... Read Entire Article

First report: Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font — theregister.com, 12d