Website Anti-Scraping Mechanism: Anubis Explained
2025-08-12
A website implemented Anubis, an anti-scraping mechanism, to combat aggressive data scraping by AI companies. Anubis resembles Hashcash, increasing computational load to deter scrapers. This approach has minimal impact on individual users but significantly raises the cost for large-scale scraping. Anubis is a temporary solution; the ultimate goal is to better differentiate legitimate users from bots by identifying headless browsers, thus avoiding inconveniencing ordinary users. Note that Anubis requires modern JavaScript features, so please disable plugins like JShelter.
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