Some thoughts on how useful Anubis really is. Combined with comments I read elsewhere about scrapers starting to solve the challenges, I'm afraid Anubis will be outdated soon and we need something else.

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[–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"good old captcha" is the most annoying thing ever for people and basically universally hated. Talking about leaving the page, what do you think what will cause more people to leave the page, a captcha that's often broken or something where people don't have to do anything but wait a little?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They don't have to do anything but let an unknown program to max their cpu unauthorized.

    Imagine if google would implement that. Billions of computers running PoW constantly, what could go wrong?

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