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You are seeing this page because the administrator of this website has taken steps to protect it against the threat of aggressive AI-driven scraping. The culprit behind these attacks is Anubis, a security system designed to prevent unauthorized access to websites.
Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash, a proposed solution for reducing email spam. While this may seem like an unnecessary added layer of complexity at an individual level, it can become a significant obstacle when used by large numbers of malicious actors. The idea behind Anubis is that the additional load caused by these attacks is manageable at small scales, but becomes prohibitively expensive as the number of attackers grows.
Ultimately, Anubis serves as a stopgap solution to buy time for researchers and developers working on more sophisticated fingerprinting techniques to identify headless browsers. These advanced methods aim to distinguish between legitimate users and malicious bots, making it easier to protect websites from abuse.
However, Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features, which plugins like JShelter will disable. If you're using a plugin that disables JavaScript for this domain, you'll need to disable it or consider alternative solutions to bypass this challenge.
Unfortunately, users who wish to access this website without enabling JavaScript are out of luck – the security measures in place require JavaScript to function properly. This is due to the evolving nature of social contracts around website hosting and the increasing threat of AI-driven scraping. While a no-JS solution is still in development, Anubis serves as an interim measure to protect websites from these malicious activities.