alt Hacker NewsPlease consider installing one of the many PoW schemes such as anubis rather than use these cloudflare "features". I increasingly encounter outright blocks rather than any sort of captcha when visiting cloudflare "protected" sites. Each individual site isn't particularly important to me but it's depressing to watch the process unfold like this. You really are choosing to erode the core basis of the internet if you go this route.
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Please don't use Anubis, it makes visiting websites very difficult (often multiple minutes wait times) on old hardware and low-end smartphones.
>I increasingly encounter outright blocks rather than any sort of captcha when visiting cloudflare "protected" sites.
???
Unless you're browsing around with the googlebot user agent string, you should be getting turnstile challanges at most, not blocks. And if you're getting a turnstile challenge it's unclear how it's different than an anubis challenge. If you're outright blocked, it's probably a site decision (eg. block all VPNs or block everyone not from a given country) rather than cloudflare's.
> Please consider installing one of the many PoW schemes such as anubis
Why not go all the way and mine monero instead of just completely wasting the work?
Adding the link to GitHub here if anyone is curious:
Not sure why Anubis is getting so much hype on HN, but honestly, it is not the solution. A real solution would use behavioral modeling. Most browser fingerprinting issues are already largely solved anyway.
PoW schemes like Anubis don't work. Increasingly bots are using headless browsers and are basically able to solve captchas, proof-of-work(s) and basically bypass all any any attempts to block them. It's becoming impossible to stop bots from hammering your sites/services for unwanted traffic.