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Anubis Works

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313 points evacchi | 1 comments | 12 Apr 25 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throwaway150 ◴[12 Apr 25 23:06 UTC] No.43668638[source]▶
Looks cool. But please help me understand. What's to stop AI companies from solving the challenge, completing the proof of work and scrape websites anyway?
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ronsor ◴[13 Apr 25 00:55 UTC] No.43669150[source]▶
I know companies that already solve it.
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creata ◴[13 Apr 25 02:13 UTC] No.43669490[source]▶
Why is spending all that CPU time to scrape the handful of sites that use Anubis worth it to them?
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1. vhcr ◴[13 Apr 25 04:17 UTC] No.43670059[source]▶
Because it's not a lot of CPU, you only have to solve it once per website, and the default policy difficulty of 16 for bots is worthless because you can just change your user agent so you get a difficulty of 4.