> I wonder how many cumulative hours of human life have been wasted waiting on writing comments on creamsicle reddit.

I disagree with a lot of the decisions around the design of Anubis... but resisting the current drive of the industry to ruin as much of the good faith resource donations from others is an admirable objective.

The point isn't to increase the amount of work required to the point of exhaustion, it's to require that scripts be able to offer the exact same feature set that browsers offer. The point isn't to make it impossible, it's too make it more expensive than free.

Anubis isn't trying to prevent all scraping, it's trying to reduce the abuse just enough that real requests get their fair share. You don't need to outcompute the botnet just slow them down a little.

I hate seeing the Anubis interstitial too, I've complained about it publicly already too. But it doesn't come close to the frustration of waiting 10s for an SPA to load all of the routes it'll never use before the first redraw. Clearly our industry has also decided latency is a good thing.