ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers That Disrespect Robots.txt
ShieldFont is a defensive technique that uses specially crafted fonts to deter or disrupt AI data scrapers that ignore robots.txt directives. The approach embeds adversarial perturbations or misleading glyphs into web fonts, causing scrapers that harvest text to receive corrupted or misleading data. It represents a growing class of "anti-scraping" countermeasures aimed at enforcing robots.txt compliance through technical means rather than legal or policy enforcement alone. The project highlights
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