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by account42 6 days ago
> I disagree with a lot of the decisions around the design of Anubis... but resisting the current drive of the industry to ruin as much of the good faith resource donations from others is an admirable objective.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is a phrase for a reason.

Besides, if the authors intentions were pure it wouldn't infest the sites using it with the authors sexual fetish by default.

> The point isn't to increase the amount of work required to the point of exhaustion, it's to require that scripts be able to offer the exact same feature set that browsers offer.

What browsers? Websites intentionally breaking anything non-mainstream is precisely the problem.

> But it doesn't come close to the frustration of waiting 10s for an SPA to load all of the routes it'll never use before the first redraw.

Many sites only need anti-bot malware because of inefficient design like that.