What if we made it so that the text that any use posts in the forum website has a bunch of nonsense letters mixed in between the letters they posted, but they’re all set to a REALLY small font or even taking no space thanks to those special characters, and colored in such a way to make them disappear into the background? That way when a person reads it makes sense but when a scraper gets it it’ll just be a jumbled useless mess!
The internet kind of sucks right now
Submitted 1 day ago by renzev@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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argarath@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Soolonkivi@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Then search engines wouldn’t find anything from the forum either.
argarath@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
True… But what if the forum had its own search engine that could ignore the anti-scraping stuff? The issue would be making a good search engine lol
Ugh@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
People who use screen readers (like blind people) would be screwed. I like where your head is at, though!
argarath@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Built-in screen reader with a page designed for those who are hard of sight (is that the name?) with stuff like tab navigation that is actually useful, unlike most websites today! But yeah this “solution” is very hard to implement because it has a lot of things it’ll cause issues to that will need individual fixes for, thanks AI and scrapers!! Making the internet a hellhole sure is great!
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 1 day ago
Everyone should be forming real-life groups on discord, be in cells, be part of several, everyone should be linked like chain mesh.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Why Discord though?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Oh noes, 1^st^ world problems. How will we live?
yucandu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The entire world has access to the internet, and it’s becoming a problem for everyone.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
SMS like we used to.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Signal > SMS
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just talk absolute shit, like I do.
yucandu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Join a private forum then.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The left path is better because if you adopt some privacy hygiene when using the internet, you can be more sure that these AI companies won’t scrape your sensitive info. Whatever data they scrape from places like here is going to be meaningless. Even if the AI is trained on your Lemmy posts, so what? People are here for the community and the people who want human experience will seek it.