Proof-of-Work Challenge

A defense that forces a client to solve a small computational puzzle before content is served, raising the per-request cost enough to deter mass automated scraping while barely taxing a real visitor.

grounded in: latest AI/tech trends: the 'scraper vs anti-scraper arms race' theme (residential proxies and bot traffic reshaping site defenses), plus the site's shipped scraping-defense readout commits (e.g. ee5ac