people hate comic sans because the internet said so

The article should have been written in Comic Sans. If they're not going to commit to the bit, I'm not reading the whole thing. 😤

Oh hi Comic Sans. Rough day?

That’s not comic sans.

Would be funny if someone with Comic Sans got quarantined or put down.

Even without a translation the joke comes thru. This is good.

Oof, a WordArt infection. That'll be tough to eradicate.

Didn't take me long to learn to spot these AI slop sites.

Anubis is excellent, I've implemented it on a dozen sites now. Cuts traffic massively. We paid for it, too; awesome to be able to support a Canadian independent developer.

thanks for sating that. it made me go look and yes, it’s lovely.

Loving the CSS on that website.

Honestly, the character is the worst part about it, but that can be changed with an enterprise license

The Javascript requirement is not ideal, but the reality is that the vast majority of the internet already needs it, so I don't see it as that much of a hurdle. The other problem it has is that it requires a sort of herd immunity to achieve the goal. If a critical mass of websites don't use it, then the AI companies can simply just pay for the increased compute costs for the sites that do.

In a world where more than half of websites that are being scraped had some kind of protection like this, it would work much better.

Their own wiki says it doesn’t work very well and doesn’t work if you have JavaScript disabled. So what about it do you like specifically? The character?

That's the one

This one?

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software)

This is a good point. Honestly, I think the tac that Anubis takes is probably the best one right now.

If each request you make to a web server is computationally expensive, that makes it harder for the bots to get that info at high speed, and thus needs to spend more power to access it. If a solution like that is deployed at a wide enough scale, it becomes prohibitively expensive to do the scraping.

No.

Maybe?

Me trying to listen to content with my a11y screen reader

Google lens had no trouble either

My samsung phone read it correctly on the first try, this font wont stop ai

This seems like it'd be pretty good for obfuscating email addresses from crawlers. At small point sizes the real text is extremely obvious to a human, but both LLM OCR and pytesseract was failing to extract the real text from this image

An unsung hero!

Yes I understood it as Crossing , but only because of the meta data behind it with Xmas, and railroad crossings having an X symbol etc

And I missed I was in Lemmy.ca :)