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The web's newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
ShieldFont swaps out an average of 24.5% of a page's words, and 45.8% of its content words, into subtly wrong substitutes that only appear in the raw HTML source scrapers pull down, while human readers still see the correct rendered text. The swaps use words with a similar part of speech but an unrelated meaning rather than obvious synonyms or gibberish, since a smart filter can catch either of those. Tested across six scraper pipelines, more than 90% of ShieldFont pages were rejected outright, and the small share that got through still carried real, correctly spelled sentences that assert nothing true.
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