In #Safari on an #iPhone going to the link I see... something that resembles a blog, but tapping the "reader view" I get the following, proving the point of the headline. If we can't read it, an #AI #Bot can't scrape it.
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# /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "bs4", # "fonttools", # ] # /// import random import string from typing import Dict from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont def scramble_font(seed: int = 1234) -> Dict[str, str]: random.seed(seed) font = TTFont("src/fonts/Mulish-Regular.ttf") # Pick a Unicode cmap (Windows BMP preferred) cmap_table = None for table in font["cmap"].tables: if table.isUnicode() and table.platformID == 3: break cmap_table = table cmap = cmap_table.cmap # Filter codepoints for a-z and A-Z codepoints = [cp for cp in cmap.keys() if chr(cp) in string.ascii_letters] glyphs = [cmap[cp] for cp in codepoints] shuffled_glyphs = glyphs[:] random.shuffle(shuffled_glyphs) # Create new mapping scrambled_cmap = dict(zip(codepoints, shuffled_glyphs, strict=True)) cmap_table.cmap = scrambled_cmap translation_mapping = {} for original_cp, original_glyph in zip(codepoints, glyphs, strict=True): for new_cp, new_glyph in scrambled_cmap.items(): if new_glyph == original_glyph: translation_mapping[chr(original_cp)] = chr(new_cp) break font.save("src/fonts/Mulish-Regular-scrambled.ttf") return translation_mapping def scramble_html( input: str, translation_mapping: Dict[str, str], ) -> str: def apply_cipher(text): repl = "".join(translation_mapping.get(c, c) for c in text) return repl # Read HTML file soup = BeautifulSoup(input, "html.parser") # Find all main elements main_elements = soup.find_all("main") skip_tags = {"code", "h1", "h2"} # Apply cipher only to text within main for main in main_elements: for elem in main.find_all(string=True): if elem.parent.name not in skip_tags: elem.replace_with(apply_cipher(elem)) return str(soup)
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