Anti-bot Verification Page Blocks EUECJ C-446/24 Case
Summary
BAILII deployed Anubis anti-bot protection on the EUECJ C-446/24 case page. The protection uses a Proof-of-Work (Hashcash-style) scheme to deter AI scrapers. Legitimate users are instructed to disable JavaScript-blocking plugins such as JShelter to access the content. The actual case text remains inaccessible behind the verification wall.
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This Notice documents BAILII's deployment of Anubis anti-bot verification on its EUECJ C-446/24 case page. The Anubis system implements a Proof-of-Work challenge (based on Hashcash) to increase the cost of mass AI scraping while attempting to avoid disrupting individual legitimate users. The page explicitly requires modern JavaScript and instructs users to disable plugins like JShelter that interfere with its operation.
For legal researchers and compliance professionals attempting to access EUECJ C-446/24 via automated tools or API-based retrieval, this protection presents an access barrier. Affected parties should note that manual browser access with JavaScript enabled is required to view the underlying case content.
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You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.
Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to be legitimate.
Please note that Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features that plugins like JShelter will disable. Please disable JShelter or other such plugins for this domain.
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