Making Sure You're Not a Bot: The Anubis Protection System

You are seeing this message because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis, a security system designed to protect our server from malicious actors and AI companies that aggressively scrape websites. While Anubis may cause some downtime for us, its benefits far outweigh the temporary inconvenience it causes.

Anubis is a Proof-of-Work scheme inspired by Hashcash, a proposed solution to reduce email spam. At an individual level, the added load from Anubis is negligible, but when mass scrapers are involved, it makes scraping much more expensive and less feasible. In essence, Anubis serves as a "good enough" placeholder solution that allows us to focus on developing fingerprinting techniques to identify legitimate users.

However, there's a catch. Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features, which plugins like JShelter disable. To navigate this challenge, you'll need to disable these plugins or enable JavaScript on our website. Unfortunately, we're still working on finding a no-JS solution, as the social contract around web hosting has changed with the rise of AI companies.

The reasoning behind Anubis is straightforward: in today's digital landscape, malicious actors have become more sophisticated and aggressive in their attempts to scrape websites for resources. By making it more expensive and difficult for them to do so, Anubis helps protect our server and ensures that our resources remain accessible to legitimate users.

While we understand that downtime can be frustrating, we believe the benefits of Anubis far outweigh the temporary inconvenience it causes. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we continue to work on improving this system and finding more sustainable solutions in the future.