The Document Foundation’s wiki is using Anubis, a proof-of-work challenge system, to protect its server from aggressive web scraping by AI companies. The site says large-scale scraping can cause downtime and make its resources inaccessible to other users. Anubis uses a proof-of-work scheme modeled on Hashcash, which was proposed to reduce email spam. The system is intended to impose negligible additional computing work on individual visitors while making high-volume scraping more expensive. The site describes Anubis as a temporary measure while work continues on identifying headless browsers, including through signals such as font rendering, so that likely legitimate users may avoid proof-of-work challenges. Anubis requires modern JavaScript features. The site says browser extensions such as JShelter can disable required features and instructs visitors to disable JShelter or similar plugins for the domain.

99% of traffic on the PatronView website consists of bots. The site owner has implemented various firewall rules to combat scrapers and has shared insights from a year of battling automated traffic.

New methods for bot detection are being discussed to improve security and user verification online. These techniques aim to differentiate human users from automated bots effectively.

The concept of the "dead Internet" suggests that bots have significantly overtaken online interactions. HackerNews has implemented restrictions on ShowHN submissions for new accounts due to an increase in low-quality content.