When the DOM Lies: Font-Based Text Obfuscation
Why readable web pages can yield incorrect extracted text: font-based obfuscation, source/rendering mismatches, and the limits of font-aware recovery.
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03 / Beyond access
Extraction Challenges
Getting a response is only the start. Investigating the difficult content, rendering, and navigation problems faced by crawlers and extraction agents.
IN SCOPE
- Scrambled & custom fonts
- Honeypots & crawler traps
- Prompt injection against AI agents
- Hostile or misleading DOM
- Dynamic rendering & hidden content
- Pagination traps & obfuscation
- Extraction reliability
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