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@waifu@mai.waifuism.life @p@fsebugoutzone.org @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @phnt@fluffytail.org It does deter "some" bots - i don't know how effective it is in the larger context. I think a lot of the sites using it have poor coding behind them that can't efficiency handle any sort of major traffic, bot or not.

My insider source says the creator of Anubis is still surprised at the sudden intake of sites using it, and they never expected it to get this far (it was a personal side project after all). The PoW thing is supposedly temporary until they find a new way to determine bot traffic. See https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/web/index.templ

"Ultimately, this is a hack whose real purpose is to give a "good enough" placeholder solution so that more
time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering)
so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to
be legitimate."