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Documentation of watermarking options

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Typically web crawlers have names ending in "bot", but partial names can also be used.
## Image watermarks and generative AI
When attaching an image to a new post it is possible to have a watermark image stamped onto it. This helps to mess with generative "AI" scrapers, using images improperly without permission, attribution or financial compensation.
The watermark image can be set via editing your profile and then going to the **background images** section. Once that is set you can also use daemon options as follows to determine how the watermark is displayed.
```bash
--watermarkWidthPercent 30 --watermarkPosition east --watermarkOpacity 10
```
The opacity is a percentage value, and you could potentially use 100% opacity together with a watermark which has a transparent background.
The watermark position is a compass direction: north, south, east, west, or combinations thereof.
Even if the scraper bot tries to remove your watermark from the image by filling in from the surrounding pixels, the removal itself may leave a detectable trace indicative of improper use.
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