Post #4382898
2026-08-03 14:25 UTC
@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
At least a few sites have been using this kind of fake font shenanigans as DRM for a while. It's a nightmare for accessibility, and just generally a terrible user-experience (as any kind of DRM usually is):
Screen reader -> Broken, or sounds like it's possessed by an evil robot
Copy-paste -> Garbage
Search -> Haha, no
Translate -> Good luck hand-copying that language you don't know
I can't remember which exact site it was, but it was one of those that let you read limited previews of scientific papers.
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social 2026-08-03 15:03
@barberousse_bin@todon.eu @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social in college, a $100 textbook I was forced to purchase digitally for a 4 week 1 credit course did a similar form of DRM (except the text was displayed as a low resolution image) and it was giving me a migraine trying to read it, so I pirated a PDF copy of the textbook I'd already purchased just so I could have a version that was actually readable