Defeating AI scraping by rethinking webpage rendering
2•exodys•1h ago
Consider the idea of someone creating a project that rendered out webpages in images and sent those over the web; updating them whenever an input is received, much like a video game input loop. If everything was server side rendered, how difficult would it be for scraping? The idea of an un-copyable webpage is enticing, assuming that you would not like your data scraped. I know computer vision is a thing, but the error rate may be enough?
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bryanrasmussen•1h ago
I believe you would run into accessibility laws that would make your project extremely illegal.
on edit: actually probably not illegal, that would be the wrong word, extremely open to financially ruinous lawsuits would be the correct phrasing.
exodys•1h ago
I guess it would have to provide audio in order to be accessible, and if blind and deaf... well, do most people prepare applications for the blind and deaf?
bryanrasmussen•1h ago
on edit: actually probably not illegal, that would be the wrong word, extremely open to financially ruinous lawsuits would be the correct phrasing.
exodys•1h ago