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DaveC426913
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Is see this frequently on Facebook (which is the only social media I frequent).
To be clear, what we are seeing here is a Facebook post, but it is a post that is a graphical image - a capture of a block of text (which could have just as easily been just textual content).
Nothing untoward so far...
But there is an additional element here: the graphical image has been corrupted - a few words have been obfuscated.
It happens far too often to be anomalous. It has to be deliberate.
My best theory is that it is an attempt to foil some sort of OCR* content scraper that presumably just grabs content automatically and reposts it as if it's their own.
*optical character recognition
I guess that makes sense, I just didn't know such bots existed. Although, now that I think about it, they would be inevitable.
Any corroborating or alternative ideas?
To be clear, what we are seeing here is a Facebook post, but it is a post that is a graphical image - a capture of a block of text (which could have just as easily been just textual content).
Nothing untoward so far...
But there is an additional element here: the graphical image has been corrupted - a few words have been obfuscated.
It happens far too often to be anomalous. It has to be deliberate.
My best theory is that it is an attempt to foil some sort of OCR* content scraper that presumably just grabs content automatically and reposts it as if it's their own.
*optical character recognition
I guess that makes sense, I just didn't know such bots existed. Although, now that I think about it, they would be inevitable.
Any corroborating or alternative ideas?