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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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Record
| Original publisher | AI Data Center Map |
| Canonical URL | https://aidatacentermap.org/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 14:18:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T14:25:01.311Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T14:25:01.311Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IKh97alvNEp6 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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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…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at AI Data Center Map.
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