[Analemma_]

> I wonder how many cumulative hours of human life have been wasted waiting on Anubis.

"How dare that mugging victim fight back".

The choice is not between Anubis and no Anubis, the choice is between Anubis and my website going offline because I can't afford the $400/month that AI scrapers would cost me (yes, I checked, and yes, that's the real figure) if Anubis wasn't in front.

[junior44660]

Smarter people have put unique captchas (in form of domain-specific questions) on their websites for long time.

[frollogaston]

That makes sense, and I believe you, I'm just surprised it really deters the scrapers.

[xena]

If it's dumb and it works, is it really dumb?

[frollogaston]

No it's not dumb, but I don't get how it manages to be so light still. Like I visit an Anubis-guarded site and barely have to wait. Scrapers really see that little CPU usage or wall time and back off? Or maybe that's just cause I'm not visiting sites that are under attack.

[saintfire]

It chooses the challenge weight based on signals. If your phone looks like a phone from a residential IP you get a simple challenge.

If you then spam requests you might get another, harder, hallenge appear.

If you have a data center IP and look like bot traffic you get a hard challenge out the gate.

AFAIU after looking at their docs several months ago.

[frollogaston]

Ah, knowing the type of IP is really advantageous by itself

[account42]

> "How dare that mugging victim fight back".

If you would go with that analogy this would be a case of the mugging victim stabbing random bystanders.

> The choice is not between Anubis and no Anubis, the choice is between Anubis and my website going offline because I can't afford the $400/month that AI scrapers would cost me (yes, I checked, and yes, that's the real figure) if Anubis wasn't in front.

Those aren't the only options and anyone who claims there is no other choice is either dishonest or incompetent.