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Yes, I also strongly suspect that this is only going to move more parts of scrapers onto consumer devices. The egress proxies are already there, why not use a l
by lxgr 1mo ago
Yes, I also strongly suspect that this is only going to move more parts of scrapers onto consumer devices. The egress proxies are already there, why not use a little bit of the compute as well?
- fwip 1mo agoWhen you force a low end device to burn CPU or fill ram constantly, the owner throws it out and buys a new one.
- bakugo 1mo agoHaha, no. The average tech illiterate person tolerates a LOT when it comes to bad performance on low end devices.
- fwip 1mo agoThe malware already results in noticeable slowdown just running the scraper. Solving anubis challenges is significantly more difficult than simply requesting the page, so it is not feasible on-device without making the device totally unusable.
- mattstir 1mo agoThat's just not possible in many parts of the world.