Comment by iamnothere

All the critics here miss the point. Anubis has worked to stop DDoS-level scraping against a number of production sites, especially self-hosted source repos and forums. If it stops working, then either Anubis contributors will come up with a fix, site devs will find their own fix, or the sites under attack will be shut down. It’s an arms race in which there is no permanent solution, each escalation will of course be easily bypassed (in theory) until the majority of the attackers find that further adaptations are not worth the additional revenue or there is no further defense possible.

Anubis isn’t some conspiracy to show you pictures of anime catgirls, it’s a desperate attempt to stave off bot-driven downtime. Many admins who install it do so reluctantly, because obviously it is annoying to have a delay when you access a website. Nobody is doing that for fun.

(There are probably a few people who install it not to protect against scraper DDoS, but due to ideological opposition to AI scrapers. IMHO this is fruitless, as the more intelligent scrapers will find ways around it without calling attention to themselves. Anubis makes almost no sense on a static personal blog.)