I'm not a fan of all the documentation and marketing content for this project evidently being AI-generated because I don't know which parts of it are the things you believe and designed for, and which are just LLM verbal diarrhea. For example, your GitHub threat model says this stops "AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, etc.)" - is this something you've actually confirmed, or just something that AI thinks is true? I don't know how their scrapers work; I'd assume they use headless browsers.

    function decodeObscrd(htmlOrElement) {
      let root;
      if (typeof htmlOrElement === 'string') {
        root = new DOMParser().parseFromString(htmlOrElement, 'text/html').body;
      } else {
        root = htmlOrElement || document;
      }
    
      const container = root.querySelector('[class*="obscrd-"]');
      if (!container) { return; }
    
      const words = [...container.children].filter(el => el.hasAttribute('data-o'));
      words.sort((a, b) => +a.dataset.o - +b.dataset.o);
    
      const result = words.map(word => {
        const chars = [...word.querySelectorAll('[data-o]')]
          .filter(el => el.querySelector('[data-o]') === null);
        chars.sort((a, b) => +a.dataset.o - +b.dataset.o);
        return chars.map(c => c.textContent).join('');
      }).join('');
    
      console.log(result);
      return result;
    }

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.

- today you don't have to be a dedicated/motivated reverse engineer- you just need Sonnet 4.6 and let it do the work.

- you need to throw constant/new gotchas to LLMs to keep them on their tows while they try to reverse engineer your website.

* Copy text

* use a screen reader for accessibility purposes (not just on the web, but on mobile too. Your 'light' obfuscation is entirely broken with TalkBack on Android. individual words/characters read, text is not a single block)

* use an RSS feed

* use reader mode in their browser

If you don't want your stuff to be read, and that includes bots, don't put it online.

> Built this because I got tired of AI crawlers reading my HTML in plain text while robots.txt did nothing.

You could have spent that time working on your project, instead of actively making the web worse than it already is.

Is that supposed to be a good thing?

it's white text and the shader background is also mostly white

It breaks copy/paste and screen readers, but so does your idea.

Same result: screen readers and assistive software is rendered useless. Basically is a sign of "I hate disabled people, and AI too"

It is better for a million AI crawlers to get through than for even one search index crawler, that might expose the knowledge on your site to someone who needs it, to be denied.