The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine
7 hours ago
- #proof-of-work
- #anti-scraping
- #web security
- Anubis is used to protect websites from AI company scraping that can cause downtime.
- It implements a Proof-of-Work system similar to Hashcash to deter mass scrapers by increasing their costs.
- This is a temporary solution while developing methods to identify headless browsers via techniques like font rendering.
- Users need modern JavaScript enabled and should disable plugins like JShelter for the domain.