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Mastodon deploys Anubis to deter AI web scraping

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Mastodon is implementing Anubis, a system designed to deter AI companies from aggressively scraping websites. Anubis employs a Proof-of-Work scheme, similar to Hashcash used for email spam, to increase the cost and effort required for large-scale scraping. This measure aims to prevent AI companies from causing downtime and inaccessibility to websites, though it may require users to disable certain browser plugins like JShelter. AI

IMPACT This measure could impact the data acquisition strategies of AI companies and potentially influence how web platforms protect their content.

RANK_REASON Implementation of a new anti-scraping tool by a platform.

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Mastodon deploys Anubis to deter AI web scraping

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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