Anubis: Proof-of-Work Protection Against AI Web Scraping
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Summary
This article explains that the website is protected by Anubis, a Proof-of-Work system similar to Hashcash, designed to prevent AI companies from aggressively scraping websites. The system imposes computational costs that are negligible for individual users but become expensive for mass scrapers, thus protecting the server from downtime caused by excessive scraping activities.
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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.
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