• Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    For those who are too lazy to check what people here in the comments are saying, here’s what happpens when you open the page in reader mode:

    a web page in firefox's reader mode displays the unobfuscated headline "sacrificing accessibility for not getting web-scraped" while the rest of the text is cryptic combination of numbers and letters instead of the actual content text.

  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    Ironically, my first instinct to opening that page and seeing it’s unusual layout and density on mobile was to switch to the reader view. Immediately getting hit with the cyphertext output. Cool, I guess.

  • kimara@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I was hoping the author would advise against using this, because after doing this your website isn’t accessible.

    I don’t think this is the answer to web scrapers, since it so adversely affects people with disabilities. The web is one of the few things that is structurally (reasonably) accessible by default even if making inaccessible websites (like the author’s is now) is possible.

    If you have to choose between accessibility or letting scrapers to access your site and scrapping accessibility, you should choose accessibility.