New AI slop signal: code blocks with weird indentation
9 days ago
- #proof-of-work
- #anti-scraping
- #web security
- The website uses Anubis to protect against AI companies scraping content, which can cause downtime.
- Anubis employs a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash to deter mass scraping by making it more expensive.
- This is a temporary solution while more advanced methods for identifying headless browsers are developed.
- Anubis requires modern JavaScript features, so plugins like JShelter must be disabled for the domain.