larsmosr

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by larsmosr 6mo ago
That’s so interesting! I know a few of the individuals and really am curious on how they interact/work together. Cool stuff
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
You project a lot in your life
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
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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by larsmosr 6mo ago
The goal is raising the cost from "curl + cheerio" to "write a custom decoder per site." Most scrapers move on to easier targets.
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
The breadcrumb approach right now is simple invisible markers, not paraphrase-resistant watermarking. You're right that semantic watermarking that survives LLM rephrasing is the harder and more interesting problem. It's on the rad
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.3; Official OpenAI documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Thanks, what phone/browser? I'll fix that.
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
For content you want public, no.
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
The TalkBack issue is useful feedback, thank you. I tested with NVDA and VoiceOver but not TalkBack on Android. If light mode is reading individual words instead of a continuous block that's a real bug I want to fix. On the broader poi
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
For public knowledge sites this would be the wrong tool entirely. The use case is more like paywalled articles, proprietary product data, or premium content that companies paid to create and don't want scraped into a competitor's
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
The bar for reverse engineering dropped to "paste the HTML into Claude and ask it to decode." That's partly why the v2 roadmap moves toward techniques where the readable text never exists in the DOM at all. Static obfuscation
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
You are more than welcome to do so. Please keep in mind the realistic goal is raising the cost of scraping. Most bots use simple HTTP requests, and we make that useless.
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Well the information is not to hide, quiet the opposite haha. There is a Demo page
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
You are not wrong. But the use case I keep seeing is companies with proprietary content they spent real money creating, who don't want it showing up in someone else's training data for free. It's less about bot hunting and mo
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Font remapping is actually on the v2 roadmap. The reason v1 uses CSS ordering instead is it preserves screen reader access. Tradeoff is it's reversible (as another commenter just showed). Font remapping is stronger but breaks assistive
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Yep, that works. The data-o attributes are readable in the DOM so you can reverse it with custom code. That's in the threat model. The goal is raising the cost from "curl + cheerio" to "write a custom decoder per site.&q
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Copy-paste breaking is intentional for protected content but it's opt-in per component, not whole-site. On the AI docs concern, fair point. To answer directly: I've confirmed the obfuscation defeats any scraper reading raw HTML vi
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Fair concern. obscrd actually preserves screen reader access. CSS flexbox order is a visual reordering property, so assistive tech follows the visual order and reads the text correctly. Contact components use sr-only spans with clean text a
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
I wanted to check it out but I get Application error on "Try for free"
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Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage(obscrd.dev)
16 points by larsmosr 6mo ago|38 comments
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
How are the costs calculated? Is it just US based or would you be able to apply this let’s say to germany or thailand?
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
I‘d love to check this out
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Exactly this! There needs to be some sort of reward for the user to keep up with checking in. I imagine something like tamagotchi where you have to feed a pet like creature that also checks in with you/ asks your mood or smth
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Mmh I don’t know, the search needs an update. I couldn’t really find anything with my keywords
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Cool tool for Digital Nomads. I live in Chiang Mai right now and I was wondering what would happen if I’d move to Palma de Mallorca. Now I know
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Simple and useful. I’d imagine there is potential to extend this for other usecases
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
Good one! I’ve been ramping up my usage lately because I’ve got so many ideas. To have this is such a game changer
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
This is one of those projects where the benefits outweighs the risks
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
I’m going to look into this even though I need something like this for react-native more urgent.
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by larsmosr 6mo ago
That’s awesome for competing with my developer friend!

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