[$] Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate

Few, if any, web sites or web-based services have gone unscathed bythe locust-like hordes of AI crawlers looking to consume (and thenre-consume) all of the world's content. The Anubis project is designed toprovide a first line of defense that blocks mindless bots-whilegranting real users access to sites without too much hassle. Anubis isa young project, not even a year old. However, its development ismoving quickly, and the project seems to be enjoying rapidadoption. The most recent release of Anubis, version1.20.0, includes a feature that many users have been interested insince the project launched: support for challenging clients withoutrequiring users to have JavaScript turned on.