News Summary

• The administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites.
• This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
• Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash.
• The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.
• A no-JS solution is a work-in-progress.