Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Websites are increasingly targeted by automated bots and AI-driven scrapers that harvest content at scale, leading to data theft, increased server load, and service downtime for legitimate users.
Solution
Anubis adds a lightweight proof‑of‑work (PoW) layer to web requests, requiring browsers to solve a computational challenge similar to Hashcash before receiving page content. The PoW is trivial for individual human users but becomes costly for large‑scale scrapers, raising the economic barrier to mass data extraction. Integration relies on modern JavaScript APIs, allowing the challenge to be presented only when headless or suspicious browsers are detected, while legitimate browsers pass through without noticeable delay. By shifting the cost to the client side, Anubis helps site operators preserve bandwidth, protect proprietary data, and maintain availability for real users.
Target Audience
Primary customers are website operators, content publishers, and SaaS platforms that need to deter large‑scale automated scraping while preserving a smooth experience for regular visitors.
Features
- JavaScript‑based PoW challenge that can be solved in milliseconds on typical consumer devices
- Adaptive challenge triggering based on heuristics for headless browsers (e.g., font rendering anomalies)
- Transparent fallback for standard browsers, ensuring no perceptible latency for human users
- Simple API for embedding the protection layer into existing web stacks without server‑side changes
- Compatibility with modern browsers; explicitly disables operation when privacy extensions block required JS features