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Anti-bot Verification Page Blocks ECHR Case 66 Access

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Summary

BAILII Europe deployed Anubis, a Proof-of-Work anti-bot protection system, to mitigate aggressive AI scraping that causes website downtime. The system uses Hashcash-style proof-of-work requiring modern JavaScript execution, which may block users with JavaScript-blocking extensions such as JShelter. No legal case content is accessible on this page.

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What changed

This BAILII Europe page is a technical placeholder generated by the Anubis anti-bot protection system, which implements a Proof-of-Work scheme to deter AI scraping. The actual ECHR case content is inaccessible behind this verification screen.

Affected parties seeking ECHR case 2026/66 should disable JavaScript-blocking extensions such as JShelter for the bailii.org domain to complete the verification challenge and access the underlying judgment.

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Apr 21, 2026

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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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Classification

Agency
ECHR
Instrument
Notice
Branch
International
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Minor

Who this affects

Applies to
Legal professionals Researchers
Industry sector
5112 Software & Technology
Activity scope
Access restrictions Website verification
Geographic scope
European Union EU

Taxonomy

Primary area
Judicial Administration
Operational domain
IT Security
Topics
Cybersecurity Data Privacy

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