• randomblock1@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    No, it’s expensive to comply (at a massive scale), but easy to avoid. Just change the user agent. There’s even a dedicated extension for bypassing Anubis.

    Even then AI servers have plenty of compute, it realistically doesn’t cost much. Maybe like a thousandth of a cent per solve? They’re spending billions on GPU power, they don’t care.

    I’ve been saying this since day 1 of Anubis but nobody wants to hear it.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      The website would also have to display to users at the end of the day. It’s a similar problem as trying to solve media piracy. Worst comes to it, the crawlers could read the page like a person would.

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        You could have a server for open code access with very limited bandwidth and another for authenticated users with higher bandwidth.