Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers

Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by ronsor on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:59PM (#43430035)

> Make it generate cryptucurrency, so that the work is not wasted. Either to compensate for server expences hosting the content, or for some noble non-profit cause - all installations would collect the currency to a single account. Wasting the work is worse than these both options.

The last time[0] we did this, everyone had a meltdown and blocked it.

[0] See Coinhive, which conspicuously lacks a Wikipedia page.

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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by avodonosov on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:13PM (#43430549)

This time the site content will not be available if the challenge computation is blocked.

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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by wslh on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:03PM (#43430469)

It is mentioned at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptojacking>

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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by avodonosov on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:12PM (#43430537)

And the mention links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinhive which redirects to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero#Mining_malware

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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by xg15 on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:31AM (#43436845)

Mining crypto can lead to misaligned incentives. Suddenly, people would have motivation to run this thing even on benign requests, etc.

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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by Silphendio on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:08PM (#43439109)

There's a German Wikipedia page: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinhive

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