It sets a cookie with a JWT verifying you completed the proof-of-work along with metadata about the origin of the request, the cookie is valid for a week. This is as far as Anubis goes, once you have this cookie you can do whatever you want on the site. For now it seems like enough to stop a decent portion of web crawlers.
You can do more underneath Anubis using the JWT as a sort of session token though, like rate limiting on a per proof-of-work basis, if a client using X token makes more than Y requests in a period of time, invalidate the token and force them to generate a new one. This would force them to either crawl slowly or use many times more resources to crawl your content.
You can do more underneath Anubis using the JWT as a sort of session token though, like rate limiting on a per proof-of-work basis, if a client using X token makes more than Y requests in a period of time, invalidate the token and force them to generate a new one. This would force them to either crawl slowly or use many times more resources to crawl your content.