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b123400 ◴[] No.19117441[source]
I read it somewhere that Chinese websites are taking this kind of obfuscations to the next level. The simple ones are randomly ordered divs re-layouted by JS at runtime. The complicated ones include custom font files which characters and glyph don't match, so for example <div style="font-family:custom-font">abc</div> would look like "123".
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MiddleEndian ◴[] No.19117551[source]
The font one seems like it's pushing it too far even for regular users since it breaks copy and paste.

Also this all seems like it would break accessibility regulations.

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1. b123400 ◴[] No.19133173[source]
You are right, but I don't think companies care about accessibility. Facebook using the divs is already breaking screen reader.