Comment by buyucu

We're 1-2 years away from putting the entire internet behind Cloudflare, and Anubis is what upsets you? I really don't get these people. Seeing an anime catgirl for 1-2 seconds won't kill you. It might save the internet though.

The principle behind Anubis is very simple: it forces every visitor to brute force a math problem. This cost is negligible if you're running it on your computer or phone. However, if you are running thousands of crawlers in parallel, the cost adds up. Anubis basically makes it expensive to crawl the internet.

It's not perfect, but much much better than putting everything behind Cloudflare.