Xe Iaso
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Most of the worst of the worst scrapers run Headless Chrome. Headless Chrome is difficult for Anubis to combat because it follows all the rules that browsers do. The worst of the worst scrapers also use residential proxy services. Those residental proxy services charge upwards of $1 per GB of data egressed or ingressed. The Prompt API makes Chrome download a 4Gi or 16Gi machine learning model. When you ask it to start downloading, it will _continue_ downloading even when you leave the Anubis challenge page. This will make the local model answer "why is the sky blue?" in an absurt amount of detail, which wastes both bandwidth and scraper CPU (some scraping companies charge via Chrome CPU too). Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net>
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Overview
Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.
This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them.
Anubis is a bit of a nuclear response. This will result in your website being blocked from smaller scrapers and may inhibit "good bots" like the Internet Archive. You can configure bot policy definitions to explicitly allowlist them and we are working on a curated set of "known good" bots to allow for a compromise between discoverability and uptime.
In most cases, you should not need this and can probably get by using Cloudflare to protect a given origin. However, for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you.
If you want to try this out, visit the Anubis documentation site at anubis.techaro.lol.
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