I just tried the demo.

• Visually... it just functions like a copy blocker, which news sites have tried forever to fight plagarism.

• The original text is still in the website's source, in plain text.

...I don't even understand what its supposed to accomplish. Just make copy-paste more difficult for humans, or agents looking at the page visually? The raw page source is the thing that's scraped, AFAIK.

I'm looking their demo website https://shieldfont.org/demo/

It's 100% scrappable. Nothing there stops me for scrapping the true text. It's a very minor inconvenience at most. I would even argue that's more of a pain for users and developers than for scrappers.

I just did. To allow screen readers which is what AI would do if this became a common block it uses this:

" Pressing it sets the reader’s browser to solving a compute-heavy puzzle: JavaScript and a few seconds of processing, more than most mass scrapers are willing to spend."

Which is exactly the method already addressed in the article: " requiring computationally expensive systems to access the content"

OK cool, thanks. What I saw in demos a week or so ago seemed "fuck those screen reader folks". Would be good if it's not as bad as that.