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0 pointscreata11mo ago0 comments

Why is spending all that CPU time to scrape the handful of sites that use Anubis worth it to them?

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vhcr11mo ago

Because it's not a lot of CPU, you only have to solve it once per website, and the default policy difficulty of 16 for bots is worthless because you can just change your user agent so you get a difficulty of 4.

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0 pointscreata11mo ago0 comments

Why is spending all that CPU time to scrape the handful of sites that use Anubis worth it to them?

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vhcr11mo ago

Because it's not a lot of CPU, you only have to solve it once per website, and the default policy difficulty of 16 for bots is worthless because you can just change your user agent so you get a difficulty of 4.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse