> they are just feigning a lack of understanding to be dismissive of Anubis.
I actually find the featured article very interesting. It doesn't feel dismissive of Anubis, but rather it questions whether this particular solution makes sense or not in a constructive way.
I still don't understand what Anubis solves if it can be bypassed too easily: If you use User-agent switcher (i emulate wget) as firefox addon on kernel.org or ffmpeg.org you save the entire check time and straight up skip Anubis. Apparently they use a whitelist for user-agents due to allowing legitimate wget usage on these domains. However if I (an honest human can) the scrapers and grifters can too.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
If anyone wants to try themselves. This is by no means against Anubis, but raising the question: Can you even protect a domain if you force yourself to whitelist (for a full bypass) easy to guess UAs?
Well, “actually”, perhaps; “legitimately” is still a stretch.
I agree - the article is interesting and not dismissive.
I was talking more about some of the people here ;)