Anubis Works

Looks cool. But please help me understand. What's to stop AI companies from solving the challenge, completing the proof of work and scrape websites anyway?

This makes it much more expensive for them to scrape because they have to run full web browsers instead of limited headless browsers without full Javascript support like they currently do. There's empirical proof that this works. When GNOME deployed it on their Gitlab, they found that around 97% of the traffic in a given 2.5 hour period was blocked by Anubis. https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/114190930216801...

> This makes it much more expensive for them to scrape because they have to run full web browsers instead of limited headless browsers without full Javascript support like they currently do. There's empirical proof that this works.

It works in the short term, but the more people that use it, the more likely that scrapers start running full browsers.