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> High Anubis difficulty is annoying the hell out of me for several sites. I just close the website if I see Anubis. Some have it set at reasonable difficultie

• johneth 17d ago
  Just look at another tab while you're waiting if you're that bothered.
• colinsane 17d ago
  the brutal truth is that if the website operator simply disabled Anubis, your page load would likely take more than 30s. when a system was designed for 100 req/s and bots hit it with 5000 req/s, nobody entering that queue is having a good time. Anubis is the trade those operators make just to ensure your request gets serviced at all. 30s load time is already a sign that the Anubis approach is breaking down. if there's nothing else ready by the next order-of-magnitude increase in crawler load, those sites quite likely will just disappear from the public internet. hate Anubis all you want: for most of us, the realistic alternative is strictly worse.