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The provided article discusses Anubis, a Proof-of-Work scheme implemented to protect websites from aggressive AI scraping. This system, inspired by Hashcash, aims to make mass scraping more expensive by imposing a small, ignorable load on individual users that accumulates significantly for large-scale scrapers. The administrator notes that AI scraping can cause website downtime, making resources inaccessible. Anubis is described as a temporary solution while more advanced methods, such as fingerprinting headless browsers, are developed to reduce the need for legitimate users to encounter the challenge page. Users are advised to disable plugins like JShelter that might interfere with Anubis's modern JavaScript features.