They have 2 options:

  - Put their ~1kb of text on a ~0kb website, make it cacheable, make hosting it free, make downloading and rendering it instantenous, make it accessible and let users read it comfortably

   - Set up a CAPTCHA and make the website inaccessible, spy on the users or give their history to trillion dollar ad companies, make them wait 10 secs to proceed.
Guess which one HN front-page bloggers choose? I often comment and/or flag them, but they never learn.

Anubis doesn't rely on spying on the user.