Making Sure You're Not a Bot: The Reality of Anubis

You are seeing this message because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis, a security measure designed to protect against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This compromise may cause downtime for affected sites, making their resources inaccessible to everyone.

Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash, a proposed method for reducing email spam. At an individual scale, this additional load is negligible, but at mass scraper levels, it becomes prohibitively expensive. In essence, Anubis is a hack aimed at providing a "good enough" placeholder solution that allows more time to be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers – the ultimate goal being to make the challenge proof of work page invisible to legitimate users.

Unfortunately, this means that Anubis version 1.20.0 requires the use of modern JavaScript features, which plugins like JShelter will disable. To bypass this challenge, you'll need to disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

"Sadly, this website is a no-JS solution in progress," the administrator notes. This limitation highlights the evolving nature of security measures and the shift in the social contract around how website hosting works. In this new landscape, AI companies have set a new standard, making it essential to enable JavaScript to get past Anubis.

So, what does the future hold? As developers continue to work on refining Anubis, we can only hope that a no-JS solution will become a reality in the near future. Until then, it's crucial to be aware of these security measures and adapt accordingly.