Website Implements Anubis Proof-of-Work System to Block AI Scraping
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Summary
The article explains that the website is using Anubis, a Proof-of-Work system similar to Hashcash, to protect against AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This protection mechanism adds computational cost to large-scale scraping operations while being negligible for individual users, preventing server downtime caused by mass scraping activities.
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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.
Ultimately, this is a pla
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