• softwarist@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    You’re right, although my understanding is that there are a lot of poorly implemented scrapers for AI services unintentionally DDoSing websites with requests, so Anubis is more of a mitigation against those.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, seems like the problem is that fundamentally it could work by upping the difficulty a smidge making it then meaningfully expensive, but the spread between slowest edge device and high end means it’s impossible to chase that difficulty without screwing over low end device users…