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ImPostingOnHNtoday at 3:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

The tool "Anubis" uses proof of work instead


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BetterThanSobertoday at 3:50 PM

With a tuned cool down period this isn't a problem, especially if you frequent the sites. OpenWRT uses Anubis and usually when I need to peruse their site I'm on a very low-end device. I prefer waiting much more over finding Waldos

But in principle I agree that there's no good answer to this, scraping _is_ useful and I bet most of us here had scraped something, it is AI company and their use of human's material for training without consent and return that led us to this (I know botting exists in forum since forum is a thing but it is easily solved by human moderators and keyword filter)

timperatoday at 3:31 PM

Anubis often takes more than 60 seconds to complete on low-end devices (especially old smartphones). It seems like there's no good solution.

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phoronixrlytoday at 3:44 PM

How does Anubis stop bots?

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