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> This is rather unfortunate, but the way Anubis works, you will only get the PoW test once.

Actually I will get it zero times because I refuse to enable javashit for sites that shouldn't need it and move on to something run by someone competent.






> sites that shouldn't need it

There's lots of ways to define "shouldn't" in this case

- Shouldn't need it, but include it to track you

- Shouldn't need it, but include it to enhance the page

- Shouldn't need it, but include it to keep their costs down (for example, by loading parts of the page dynamically / per person and caching the rest of the page)

- Shouldn't need it, but include it because it help stop the bots that are costing them more than the site could reasonably expected to make

I get it, JS can be used in a bad way, and you don't like it. But the pillar of righteousness that you seem to envision yourself standing on it not as profound as you seem to think it is.


Well, everything’s a tradeoff. I know a lot of small websites that had to shut down because LLM scraping was increasing their CPU and bandwidth load to the point where it was untenable to host the site.

Can you name a couple?



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