Anubis rarely ever annoys me (I still prefer it over cloudflare’s Mitm) but this specific visit feels almost vindictive. It used half my CPU cores at full blast for three straight minutes.
It seems to be effective since I can’t really “bypass” it with extensions, so AI crawlers probably can’t either, but damn there really should be an option to complete a manual captcha or email the administrators to complain.
As I’m typing this the challenge is still running xD
Think of it like tipping culture. Get mad at AI industry scrapers that make anubis necessary. Sam Altman is the reason you are enduring this. Take a lighter and…
Instructions unclear: tipped my servers, now all offline?
I suspect this is more about all the individual searches than mass scraping. We’ve had google et al scraping the entire web for a long time and nobody gave a fuck. AI makes it easy to launch a ton of web searches without putting much thought into it.
Search engines doing it is good because now you are indexed and will show up in searched and they won’t do it as often as AIs.
AIs will take your stuff, DDOS you in the meantime and do it periodically - by different people too, they don’t give back anything either