Hirschthal
2 months ago
Trainee-/Nachwuchsprogramm für technische Talente (w/m/d)
- 24 January 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Hirschthal
Job summary
Anubis is a security tool protecting websites from bots.
Tasks
- It uses a Proof-of-Work scheme to deter scraping.
- Designed to manage server load and reduce downtime.
- Focuses on identifying headless browsers for better accuracy.
Skills
- Requires modern JavaScript features for optimal function.
- Understanding of Proof-of-Work systems is essential.
- Familiarity with web security measures preferred.
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About the job
Making sure you're not a bot!
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Difficulty: 5, Speed: 0kH/s
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.
Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to be legitimate.
Please note that Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features that plugins like JShelter will disable. Please disable JShelter or other such plugins for this domain.
