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Anubis Anti-Scraping Bot Verification

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Summary

Anubis Anti-Scraping Bot Verification

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What changed

BAILII implemented Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-scraping protection system, to mitigate server load from AI companies aggressively scraping its website. The system uses Hashcash-style proof-of-work to impose minimal additional load on individual users while making mass scraping more resource-intensive. Website administrators encountering the verification should disable JavaScript-interfering plugins like JShelter for the domain.

This is a technical infrastructure measure with no regulatory or compliance implications. Affected parties (website operators experiencing bot challenges) face no legal obligations—only potential technical adjustments to bypass the verification if using anti-bot plugins.

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Apr 16, 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
BAILII
Instrument
Notice
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Minor

Who this affects

Geographic scope
United Kingdom GB

Taxonomy

Primary area
Cybersecurity
Operational domain
IT Security

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