Comment by greatgib
Just a personal fact, when I want to see a page and instead I have to face a 3s stupid nagscreens like the one of anubis, I'm very pissed off and pushed even more to bypass the website when possible to get the info I want directly from llm or search engine.
It's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy, you make it the visitor experience worse, giving a self justification why llm giving the content is wanted and needed.
All of that because in the current lambda/cloud computing word, it became very expensive to process only a few requests.
Unfortunately the choice isn't between sites with something like Anubis and sites with free and unencumbered access. The choice is between putting up with Anubis and the sites simply going away.
A web forum I read regularly has been playing whack-a-mole with LLM scrapers for much of this year, with multiple weeks-long periods where the swarm-of-locusts would make the site inaccessible to actual users.
The admins tried all manner of blocks, including ultimately banning entire countries' IP ranges, all to no avail.
The forum's continued existence depends on being able to hold off abusive crawlers. Having to see half-a-second of the Anubis splashscreen occasionally is a small price to pay for keeping it alive.