ShieldFont is a cute hack, but we must not sacrifice accessibility (think Screen Readers) in order to defend "AI" scrapers. We need to defend humans and that includes people needing accessibility support.
(Original title: The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
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