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Oddly enough I can’t access that site, it just heats up my phone solving hashes. Gave up after about a minute and anubis had only made it less than halfway thro
by semiquaver 2mo ago
Oddly enough I can’t access that site, it just heats up my phone solving hashes. Gave up after about a minute and anubis had only made it less than halfway through.
I doubt the real bots have any trouble bypassing it.
- demibabs 2mo agoYeah, is it trying to mine bitcoin or something? Anubis usually takes a second but here I waited a minute and got 20% through on a modern phone.
- bulder 2mo agoPresumably they've configured it to use a higher difficulty challenge due to high rates of scraping on their bugtracker
- myng111 2mo agoDifficulty 6 which some parts of FFmpeg use, is about the highest difficulty you can assign with the default Anubis config. For me personally I only serve that difficulty if I'm near certain the user is a bot. Serving it to everyone sure is a choice.
- bartread 2mo ago[flagged]
- Georgelemental 2mo ago> And don't come crying to me about how the problem you're trying to solve is "hard". I don't care: you chose it, you chose to considerably worsen the web browsing experience of millions of people globally, nobody made you. Unfortunately, if you let all the bots in, they overwhelm your servers, and then nobody can access the website.
- aystatic 2mo agoNot if you use a decentralized peer-to-peer Git forge like https://radicle.network https://radicle.network. If one node goes down, users can still access the same issues/PRs from another endpoint.
- breznev 2mo agoGenuinely surprised to see these guys still committed to the grift. Berlin ain't so cheap these days, I guess
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoI assume you're offering to pay for the increased server costs? I had some git hosting up for a while, and was serving hundreds of qps and several terabytes per month. I can only imagine want significant sites are serving.
- bartread 2mo ago> I assume you're offering to pay for the increased server costs? Such a non-argument. I'm expecting people to create better, more effective, and less intrusive anti-bot measures. Measures that accurately detect bots but don't exclude real people from the web simply because of the browser they're using, or the country they either appear to be in or are in fact in, for example.
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- 8bitsrule 2mo agoIt's indeed very annoying. I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...
- post-it 2mo agoIt also took insanely long on my iPhone 16. "Made with heart in Canada" but configured poorly.
- hiccuphippo 2mo agoTook less than a minute in my 5 year old xiaomi phone. It did take way longer than other Anubis sites I've seen.
- gguingff 2mo agohappy to report my bots have no trouble with anubis or any other pow mechanism, little bit of deno and i'm right through.
- LoganDark 2mo agoThe point is to deter bots that are scraping thousands to millions of websites in parallel, not user agents.
- inventor7777 2mo agoIt's puzzling how mild the reactions are to Anubis compared to the people reacting to seeing one singular Cloudflare captcha checkbox. I'd much rather a checkbox than a brief CPU-intensive hashing session.
- da_chicken 2mo agoI think when people are complaining about Captcha they're complaining about yet another "pick 6-20 pictures of traffic lights/school busses/stairs/stop signs/bicycles."
- mapontosevenths 2mo agoIf they want to train an AI they should pay for it like everyone else. Modern bots have zero problems solving these, it's just free training for them.
- da_chicken 2mo ago> If they want to train an AI they should pay for it like everyone else. They're paying for electricity and taking data without paying for it. It seems to me that they're paying for it exactly the same way everyone else in AI did.
- Scoundreller 2mo agoDoes the bot include the rider when identifying bicycles? When is an ebike a motorcycle/no longer a bicycle? The support structure for a traffic light or just the coloured light bits?
- inventor7777 2mo agoNot in this case. I wish I could find the actual post, but I recall reading a post on HN recently where a majority of the commenters were claiming that when they even see a Cloudflare verification checkbox that they leave the website. This makes no sense to me as in my experience, you click the checkbox and then it verifies you without extra steps.
- kurtoid 2mo agotheir anubis difficulty is wayyy to high; 6 is overkill
- arjie 2mo agoIt's a pity about the web, because it's becoming less accessible over time. Regardless, I (and some others) archive many of the things we browse to, so here you go: https://amber.agentic.church/web/lists.ffmpeg.org/20260828070946/https://lists.ffmpeg.org/archives/list/ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org/message/F4FVBV4GOAWHEPVJ4JAJLHQ23UPKDJ6I/ https://amber.agentic.church/web/lists.ffmpeg.org/2026082807... Apparently, not the fonts they use for icons.
- xxs 2mo agoIt took around 15kJ to access the site... that's a proper waste and somewhat sad, even though I understand.
- hexagonwin 2mo agoit's putting full load on my 6core 11th gen i5 machine for more than a minute. i just closed it..