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Anubis is an open-source bot protection tool that uses a Proof-of-Work scheme (inspired by Hashcash) to defend web servers against aggressive AI scraping. When a visitor passes the challenge, they see a success page explaining the mechanism. The approach adds negligible overhead for individual users but makes mass scraping significantly more expensive. It is described as a temporary compromise while more sophisticated fingerprinting techniques (e.g., headless browser detection via font rendering) are developed.

Making sure you're not a bot!