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Anubis Works

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313 points evacchi | 1 comments | 12 Apr 25 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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udev4096 ◴[13 Apr 25 08:22 UTC] No.43671070[source]▶
PoW captchas are not new. What's different with Anubis? How can it possibly prevent "AI" scrapers if the bots have enough compute to solve the PoW challenge? AI companies have quite a lot of GPUs at their disposal and I wouldn't be surprised if they used it for getting around PoW captchas
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relistan ◴[13 Apr 25 08:35 UTC] No.43671127[source]▶
The point is to make it expensive to crawl your site. Anyone determined to do so is not blocked. But why would they be determined to do so for some random site? The value to the AI crawler likely does not match the cost to crawl it. It will just move on to another site.

So the point is not to be faster than the bear. It’s to be faster than your fellow campers.

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genewitch ◴[13 Apr 25 09:03 UTC] No.43671262[source]▶
Why not have them hash pow for btc then?
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sprremix ◴[13 Apr 25 15:55 UTC] No.43673699[source]▶
Why must everything involve $'s?
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1. genewitch ◴[13 Apr 25 19:53 UTC] No.43675374[source]▶
because there's a lot of rhetoric about how this "balances the imbalance between serving a request and making that request" and if we're having them do sha256, why not have them do sha256(sha256(data+random nonce)) and potentially earn the site owner some money?