Website uses Anubis Proof-of-Work system to block AI scraping bots
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Summary
This article describes a website protection system called Anubis, which uses a Proof-of-Work scheme (similar to Hashcash) to defend against aggressive AI companies scraping websites. The system imposes a computational cost on visitors to verify they are not automated scrapers, with the goal of making mass scraping economically unviable while keeping the burden negligible for individual users. The page appears to be a loading/interstitial screen that users encounter before accessing the actual content.
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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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