Bot Verification Page for EWCA Crim 2026 Case 482
Summary
BAILII deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work bot verification system, to protect its servers against AI web scraping. The system uses Hashcash-style proof-of-work to impose computational costs on mass scrapers while remaining negligible for individual users. The verification page requires JavaScript and may conflict with browser extensions like JShelter.
What changed
BAILII implemented a bot verification checkpoint using proof-of-work technology (Anubis) as a technical barrier to automated access. The system adds computational load for mass scraping operations while having minimal impact on individual legitimate users. The page notes this is a temporary solution pending development of headless browser fingerprinting capabilities.
Affected parties attempting to access case EWCA Crim 2026/482 through automated means will encounter this verification page. Users with JavaScript-disabling extensions (such as JShelter) must disable them for the BAILII domain to proceed. This is a technical security measure rather than a legal or regulatory action.
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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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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