ashinadash comments on Webdevs in 2006: Every nanosecond of load time is a nanosecond the user can exist our website. Websites in 2026: One more thing, just making sure you're human, please insert verification anal probe.

Webdevs in 2006: Every nanosecond of load time is a nanosecond the user can exist our website. Websites in 2026: One more thing, just making sure you're human, please insert verification anal probe. (hexbear.net)

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I sympathise with the need to implement Anubis or other "checking ur browser" measures given the wave of scraper bots nowadays. Being a relatively small site like The Cutting Room Floor and having your server costs blown out by Claude or w/e.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Anubis is way less annoying than the much more common cloudflare/google captchas

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

Anubis can also be bypassed just fine by a bot. The main thing it does is increase load on the bot runners.

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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago*

Anubis could let most user pass without challenge just fine.

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