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 Combined with comments I read elsewhere about scrapers starting to solve the challenges, I'm afraid Anubis will be outdated soon and we need something else.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously complaining about an (entirely false) negative privacy aspect of Anubis and then suggest reCaptcha from Google is better?

Look, no one thinks Anubis is great, but often it is that or the website becoming entirely inaccessible because it is DDOSed to death by the AI scrapers.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

First, I said reCaptcha types, meaning captchas of the style of reCaptcha. That could be implemented outside a google environment. Secondly, I never said that types were better for privacy. I just said Anubis is bad for privacy. Traditional captchas that work without JavaScript would be the privacy friendly way.

Third, it's not a false proposition. Disabling JavaScript can protect your privacy a great deal. A lot of tracking is done through JavaScript.

Last, that's just the Anubis PR slogan. Not the truth, as I said ddos mitigation could be implemented in other ways. More polite and/or environmental friendly.

Are you astrosurfing for anubis? Because I really cannot understand why something as simple as a landing page with a button "run PoW challenge" would be that bad

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Anubis is not bad for privacy, but rather the opposite. Server admins explicitly chose it over commonly available alternatives to preserve the privacy of their visitors.

If you don't like random Javascript execution, just install an allow-list extension in your browser 🤷

And no, it is not a PR slogan, it is the live experience of thousands of server admins (me included) that have been fighting with this for month now and are very grateful that Anubis has provided some (likely only temporary) relief from that.

And I don't get what the point of an extra button would be when the result is exactly the same 🤷

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 13 hours ago

Latest version of Anubis has a JavaScript-free verification system. It isn't as accurate, so I allow js-free visits only if the site isn't being hammered. Which, tbf, prior to Anubis no one was getting in, JS or no JS.