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The article discusses the implementation of Anubis, a protective measure against AI companies scraping websites. Anubis employs a Proof-of-Work scheme to deter mass scraping while allowing legitimate users access. The article notes that this solution requires modern JavaScript features, which may be affected by certain browser plugins.
- ▪Anubis is designed to protect websites from aggressive scraping by AI companies.
- ▪It uses a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash to increase the cost of mass scraping.
- ▪The solution requires modern JavaScript, which can be disabled by certain plugins.
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Running a private, secure check — please hold. Loading...You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the…
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