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Comment on Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage

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Oh great, another method to make screen readers and keyboard navigation impossible.

At this point, bots are better at getting data out of web pages than people are. (And have been so for at least a few years: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat...)

All we're doing now is making it easier to get data from a web scraper than to browse to the web page ourselves.

Content protection and accessibility are in direct conflict with most approaches. Working on making the a11y layer something I handle properly rather than just hoping CSS ordering is enough.

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