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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by verteu on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:44PM (#44966830)
> PoW increases the cost for the bots which is great. Trivial to implement, sure, but that added cost will add up quickly.

No, the article estimates it would cost less than a single penny to scrape all pages of 1,000,000 distinct Anubis-guarded websites for an entire month.

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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by thunderfork on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:55PM (#44966926)
Once you've built the system that lets you do that, maybe. You still have to do that, though, so it's still raising the cost floor.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by vmttmv on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:10PM (#44967470)
but... how? when the author ran the numbers, the rough estimate is solving the challenges at a rate of 10000/5 min, on a single instance of the free tier of google compute. that is an insignificant load at an even more insignificant cost.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by guappa on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:32AM (#44970454)
That's insanely slow compared to how fast they normally scrape.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by verteu on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:45PM (#44977170)
As mentioned in the article, mining one token gets you unfettered access for 7 days.
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