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by animuchan 767 days ago
Absolutely. The basic tools just fetch sites recursively and use regular expressions. The advanced tools are Chromium-based, so will render SVGs just fine (and then potentially run OCR / AI to extract text even from JPEGs).

This technique protects from a "neither here nor there" subset of programs, I wonder how large is that set in practice.