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The website explains its use of 'Anubis,' a proof-of-work challenge system designed to prevent aggressive AI web scraping. It notes that this is a temporary measure while the site develops more sophisticated methods to identify and block automated bots.
Why it matters
Reflects the growing tension between website owners and AI companies regarding data scraping and server resource management.
You are seeing this because 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.
Technical explanation of site policy; neutral tone regarding the conflict.
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