Anubis (software)
Open-source proof-of-work gate that keeps AI scrapers off websites.
At a glance
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- Anubis is open-source software that makes a browser solve a proof-of-work challenge before it can load a website, to deter scrapers.
- Xe Iaso wrote it after Amazon's crawler overloaded their Git server while ignoring robots.txt.
- It is used mainly by Git forges and open-source projects.
- Critics have shown that scrapers can solve its challenges cheaply.
Key facts
- Method
- SHA-256 proof of work, with EdDSA-signed tokens kept as cookies1
- Used by
- Git forges and open-source projects, e.g. OpenWRT; also the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek1
- Inspired by
- Hashcash1
Connections
Founded by
- Xe IasoPerson
created it 1
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