anti-scraping

Patreon is updating its algorithm to prioritize content over follower counts for better discovery of smaller creators, and introducing new features like Clips for short-form video and Niches for topic-based communities.

A new font called ShieldFont leverages ligatures to replace words in webpage HTML, presenting readable text to humans while serving nonsense to AI scrapers, effectively poisoning training data.

ShieldFont is a typeface and toolkit that protects written content from unauthorized AI training by subtly swapping words with fluent, false decoys that poison scraped datasets, while keeping the real text readable for humans and screen readers.

Tested using CloakBrowser or Patchright as an automated browser to avoid many anti-scraping issues. Recommended for RSSHub users.

Introducing two tools (Agent Reach and wx-cli) that allow AI Agent to read WeChat messages and official account content, enabling automatic group message summarization, material collection, and more. Installation takes only 10 minutes.