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>There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic. "Anubis reduces bot traffic" and "[the proof of work] is not stopping anyone" isn't
by gruez 1mo ago
>There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic.
"Anubis reduces bot traffic" and "[the proof of work] is not stopping anyone" isn't contradictory, especially if anubis isn't being benchmarked against non-POW alternatives like IP/ASN bans, or tls fingerprinting.
- Jtariiiii 1mo ago"it's not stopping anyone" and "it is stopping some people" are mutually exclusive statements.
- gruez 1mo agoYou're selectively quoting the comment. It's clearly talking about the PoW aspect not being a serious impediment.
- xboxnolifes 1mo agoWho cares if its PoW or something else? Does it matter in any meaningful way?
- account42 1mo agoIt matters if the PoW component is negatively impacting real users, which it is.
- wiredfool 1mo agoIP blocks don't work, because they're using proxy networks so that you see an ip address 1 or 2 times within 10 minutes. They have effectively infinite ip addresses. (actually, looking at my data from today, I think this relationship holds over ~3 hours, where we're seeing ip address cardinality at about 1/2 of the hits.) * Sometimes there's a pattern to the country. Oftentimes, not. * User-agent, rotated between common, valid, current web browsers. * Other headers, sec-*, accept, etc, generally valid and rotating. * Bots will load the site to saturation in a denial of wallet attack. The only thing that's specific is: * urls have a pattern. * it's obviously invalid traffic. (non-bot traffic on my sites does not go from 0 to 200r/sec on the search interface in seconds. It does not go away that fast either)