We All Dodged a Bullet
a day ago
- #proof-of-work
- #anti-scraping
- #web security
- Anubis is used to protect websites from AI companies scraping aggressively, which can cause downtime.
- It employs a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash to deter mass scraping by making it expensive.
- The goal is to buy time for better fingerprinting and identification of headless browsers to distinguish legitimate users.
- Anubis requires modern JavaScript features; plugins like JShelter may need to be disabled for it to work.
- The current version of Anubis running is v1.21.3.