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- The website uses Anubis, a Proof-of-Work system similar to Hashcash, to protect against AI bots scraping content.
- At individual scale, the additional load is negligible, but for mass scrapers it makes scraping more expensive.
- Anubis is a placeholder solution while better fingerprinting methods (e.g., font rendering) are developed to identify headless browsers.
- Users are asked to disable plugins like JShelter that block the modern JavaScript features Anubis requires.