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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 days ago

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 days ago
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Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
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    It’s simply checking if the connection is from an actual browser, as a scraper pretending to be one won’t actually refresh the page as instructed. It’s going to buy some time, but like the rest of Anubis in general, it will only work until the scrapers get modified to work around it.

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