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How Anubis Protects Websites from AI Scraping

By

rastignack

9mo ago· 1 min readenNews

Summary

The article explains the use of Anubis, a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash, to protect websites from aggressive scraping by AI companies. This measure prevents server downtime caused by mass scraping, making it costly for scrapers while minimally impacting individual users.

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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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