aevai want to make a little art portfolio site, and I'm stuck between wanting to fuck with scrapists and wanting to not fuck with screen readers. I'm considering chopping up images into tiles which would be assembled into their correct relative locations via css or something. i could even put alt text on it with a transparent image layered on top spanning the full area. downside is real people wouldn't be able to download the images though :/
youen@aeva don't know if the more classical "checking you are human" things actually work? (maybe a custom one with a silly question?)
Otherwise there's the idea of banning visitors that have scrapper behavior, but this comes after they have already scraped a few pages, and scrapers are becoming good at masquerading as real users 😑
It's going to be a never ending fight I'm afraid (well, at least until the bubble bursts)