alt Hacker NewsPlease don't use Anubis, it makes visiting websites very difficult (often multiple minutes wait times) on old hardware and low-end smartphones.
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fc417fc802 • today at 12:21 PM
Personally I think that's a better outcome than the alternative.
However another option is to support both. Have a challenge page that requires the visitor to select one of several options. Cloudflare could be one of those.
gobip • today at 12:34 PM
What's the alternative? We're stuck, either cloudflare or anubis
r_lee • today at 12:54 PM
what kind of hardware would take minutes to complete the checks?
As things stand right now, the current web may not be possible to maintain for old and low-end phones given the costs imposed by AI training crawlers.
Please propose an alternative to both Cloudflare and Anubis, that shields websites against inhuman traffic without frequent operator intervention (or otherwise negates the capacity costs they pay for AI crawling) and is compatible with low-end smartphones.
Certainly, I imagine Anubis would be interested in adopting it if it’s effective!