Cormac McCarthy library site turns on anti-AI crawler protection
What happened
A Hacker News front-page post on October 30 reported that the Cormac McCarthy library website has enabled Anubis protection, using a Hashcash-style proof-of-work mechanism to block large-scale crawling by AI companies. The computational burden on a single user is negligible, but it sharply raises the cumulative cost for crawlers. The site says the current protection is a placeholder, and it will move to fingerprinting and headless-browser detection later. Anubis relies on modern JavaScript features, so extensions such as JShelter may block it, and users need to disable them for that domain.
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- Hacker News front pageCormac McCarthy's Library
Cormac McCarthy 图书馆网站启用 Anubis 防护，通过类似 Hashcash 的工作量证明机制阻挡 AI 公司的大规模爬取。该机制对单个用户的计算负担可忽略，但会大幅增加爬虫的累积成本；网站称这只是占位方案，后续将转向指纹识别和无头浏览器检测。Anubis 依赖现代 JavaScript 功能，JShelter 等插件可能拦截，需为该域名停用。
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