The website Anubis is using a Proof-of-Work scheme to slow down AI development by making it more expensive to scrape websites, as seen in Hashcash. This is a temporary solution to prevent AI companies from overwhelming the server and is intended to be replaced by more advanced fingerprinting techniques. However, this requires modern JavaScript features to be enabled, which may be disabled by plugins like JShelter. AI summary
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