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ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words
Help Net Security·August 7, 2026·1 min read
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ShieldFont is a web font designed to deter AI scraping by displaying one set of words to users while embedding a different set in the page's source code. This technique allows human readers to see the intended content, while automated crawlers receive misleading information.
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Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person reading in a browser sees the writing as written. A scraper pulling the HTML gets different words in the sa…
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