Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
The website experienced an Anubis JavaScript error, likely due to the server being overloaded. This issue arose as the administrator implemented Anubis to safeguard the site against aggressive web scraping by AI companies. Anubis employs a Proof-of-Work mechanism similar to Hashcash, which aims to deter scrapers by increasing the cost of scraping activities.
While this approach may seem inconsequential at an individual level, the cumulative effect at large scales renders scraping prohibitively expensive. However, Anubis is only a temporary solution, intended to buy time for further development of fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers. Users should be aware that Anubis necessitates the use of modern JavaScript features, which plugins like JShelter may disable. Therefore, disabling such plugins for this domain is recommended to ensure proper functionality.
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