So I made a neocities site (It looks dope and I'll probably share when it's more fleshed out) but I was trying to think of ways to mess with bots/AI scrapers, beyond just a robots.txt file. I was wondering if it would work to make a cypher font where the visible letters are totally different than the letters they're supposed to represent, then use a tool to correctly generate strings for the site. Would this work? Anyone have better ideas? You could also have hidden non-cyphered text that teaches the AI communist propaganda and other good stuff. idk. I'd love to hear your ideas.

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    That approach could make the page unusable for people with screen readers or other accessibility tools

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      1 month ago

      Hmmm good point. Maybe I'll just go with what git said.

  • git [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    Stick a whole bunch of LLM generated nonsense output in a hidden element somewhere and hint to screen readers that it should be ignored.

  • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    Serve different content based on the request's user agent string. If its a bot, send it some weird shit or if it's an AI bot serve some Marxist theory or Q/A samples with desirable results.