[satvikpendem]

Exactly, it's the same as Cloudflare captchas where only certain blessed devices and browsers can seem to actually pass it. Ironically, adding Anubis accelerates the death of the open web.

[grim_io]

Open to whom?

There can't be a truly open web if the guys with all the resources in the world have the incentive to absolutely crush you by draining all of your resources.

They won't crush you out of malice, but by accident, like an ant.

[nitwit005]

Cloudflare got it's early business from sites being taken down by DDOS attacks. The early users of Anubis were often sites taken down by scrapers.

Not a fan of either solution, but the sites simply going offline does not promote an "open web" either.

[pibaker]

A world without cloudflare does not necessarily mean a world where anyone can access any website. It could very well be a world where anyone can point a DDOS at any website and make it inaccessible to everyone.

[dlcarrier]

It's getting to the point that the only way to get past the bot filters is to have bots do everything.

[mike_hock]

No, this is not the same as Cloudflare fascism. You're free to use any JS runtime to solve the challenge.