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by subscribed 160 days ago
Anubis flatly refuses me access to several websites when I'm accessing them with a normal Chromium with enabled JS and whatnot, from a mainstream, typical OS, just with aggressive anti-tracking settings.

Not sure if that's the intended use case. At least Cloudflare politely masks for CAPTCHA.
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fc417fc802 160 days ago
What do you mean "refuses"? The worst it should do is serve up a high difficulty proof of work. Unless it gained new capabilities recently?

Are you sure the block isn't due to the authors of those websites using some other tool in addition?

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subscribed 158 days ago
Sorry didn't take the screenshot, but I get a message akin to "You have been blocked by anubis software" with anubis logo and whatnot. Maybe anubis uses some other plugin or someone just decided to put up such page. Idk.

Imagine Cloudflare "You're blocked" page, but with different design and logos.

I don't think it requested anything else, at least I didn't see anything else. If I find this page again, I'll reply with a link to the screenshot.

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john01dav 160 days ago
I thought that Anubis solely is proof of work, so I'm very curious as to what's going on here.
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