Hochschulbegleitendes Praktikum bei PFIFFNER Messwandler AG

13 January 2026
100%
Permanent position
Hirschthal

Job summary

Anubis protects websites from aggressive scraping bots. It ensures server resources remain accessible.

Tasks

Utilizes a Proof-of-Work scheme to deter mass scraping.
Requires modern JavaScript features for proper functionality.
Aims to identify headless browsers for better user experience.

Skills

Experience with web security and bot detection methods.
Familiarity with JavaScript and browser technologies.
Understanding of scraping prevention techniques.

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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.