• Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Hasn’t worked on most sites in a long time. The obscuring is now done on the server side so the text never gets to the browser. Otherwise it used to be easy to just use the developer console or uBlock to just remove the components that concealed the text or prevent the browser refreshing to prevent the concealing.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
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      20 days ago

      I can’t recall which right now, but there are ones that manage to scrape the entire content by spoofing the Google crawler.
      Since websites want to maximise their SEO, they must provide the raw content to be indexed better