Some thoughts on how useful Anubis really is. Combined with comments I read elsewhere about scrapers starting to solve the challenges, I’m afraid Anubis will be outdated soon and we need something else.
Some thoughts on how useful Anubis really is. Combined with comments I read elsewhere about scrapers starting to solve the challenges, I’m afraid Anubis will be outdated soon and we need something else.
Yes, I manage cloudflare for a massive site that at times gets hit with millions of unique bot visits per hour
So you know that this is the lesser of the two evils? Seems like you’re viewing it from client’s perspective only.
No one wants to burden clients with Anubis, and Anubis shouldn’t exist. We are all (server operators and users) stuck with this solution for now because there is nothing else at the moment that keeps these scrapers at bay.
Even the author of Anubis doesn’t like the way it works. We all know it’s just more wasted computing for no reason except big tech doesn’t give a care about anyone.
My point is, and the author’s point is, it’s not computation that’s keeping the bots away right now. It’s the obscurity and challenge itself getting in the way.