I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I'm even more annoyed by anubis. Letting me wait in the browser for an enternity for some check that a bot with a native implementation can solve in milliseconds.

Proof of work my ass.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It sure can, instead of doing 50 requests. A slowdown is all that's needed to make random scraping uneconomical.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    https://github.com/mikenrafter/anubis-fast.mirror

    This is a sample of a much faster anubis solver (end user facing).

    There's versions. of this for people running bot networks - it's just a few cheap cloud cpu cycles to invest. Proof of work is an ineffective defense against spam in the age of cheap and scalable cloud compute - and even moreso if the botnet runs on residential proxies.

    My point is, the slowdown is NOT making random scraping uneconomical anymore, it does hurt legitimate users a lot more.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (5 children)

    Tbh I never had to wait much with anubis, neither with my phone or computer; websites that make me wait a lot (like the arch wiki IIRC) then give ya access without having to do the check again;
    Also, Anubis unlike Cloudflare does not block me just cuz i have NoScript installed

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

    How modern is your phone? Anubis is killing my old Samsung A72 from 2020 - long waits, draining battery. On the laptop it's less of an annoyance, I've got the laptop connected to mains anyway and it is fast enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (3 children)

    honor magic 6 lite, it's from 2023

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (2 children)

    That's interesting, the honor 6 lite should be 20-30% faster than my old A72. Noticeable but not a lot. Maybe it's the Firefox browser I'm still clinging to, and I should finally give in and change to Google Chrome.

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