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 Combined with comments I read elsewhere about scrapers starting to solve the challenges, I’m afraid Anubis will be outdated soon and we need something else.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    The point was never that Anubis challenges are something scrapers can’t get past. The point is it’s expensive to do so.

    Some bots don’t use JavaScript and can’t solve the challenges and so they’d be blocked, but there was never any point in time where no scrapes could solve them.

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      19 hours ago

      Wait, so browsers that disable JavaScript won’t be able to access those websites? Then I hate it.

      Not everyone wants unauthenticated RCE from thousands of servers around the world.

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        18 hours ago

        Not everyone wants unauthenticated RCE from thousands of servers around the world.

        Ive got really bad news for you my friend