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'Anti-AI Fonts Are Useless and Harmful' Argues Obfuscated Type Breaks Screen Readers While Costing Scrapers a Screenshot
The yaros.ae post took 178 points and 134 comments with one thesis: if a human can read it, it can be parsed. Anti-AI fonts remap or visually distort glyphs to poison scrapers, and commenters pointed out that any crawler can screenshot the page and run OCR, exactly as text CAPTCHAs fell. The author publishes no OCR accuracy numbers, which is the weakness of the piece, but the accessibility argument stands on its own: reader mode, copy-paste and screen readers all break permanently while the scraper is inconvenienced temporarily. One commenter's framing is the takeaway, removing accessibility for humans permanently in exchange for removing it for scrapers temporarily.
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