Comment by semiquaver
9 hours ago
Oddly enough I can’t access that site, it just heats up my phone solving hashes. Gave up after about a minute and anubis had only made it less than halfway through.
I doubt the real bots have any trouble bypassing it.
It's a pity about the web, because it's becoming less accessible over time. Regardless, I (and some others) archive many of the things we browse to, so here you go:
https://amber.agentic.church/web/lists.ffmpeg.org/2026082807...
Apparently, not the fonts they use for icons.
It's puzzling how mild the reactions are to Anubis compared to the people reacting to seeing one singular Cloudflare captcha checkbox. I'd much rather a checkbox than a brief CPU-intensive hashing session.
Anubis is usually less obtrusive than that, though. This is the longest anubis challenge I've ever had, to the point of being absurd. Hopefully they have a genuine reason for having set the difficulty so high.
I think when people are complaining about Captcha they're complaining about yet another "pick 6-20 pictures of traffic lights/school busses/stairs/stop signs/bicycles."
Not in this case. I wish I could find the actual post, but I recall reading a post on HN recently where a majority of the commenters were claiming that when they even see a Cloudflare verification checkbox that they leave the website.
This makes no sense to me as in my experience, you click the checkbox and then it verifies you without extra steps.
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If they want to train an AI they should pay for it like everyone else. Modern bots have zero problems solving these, it's just free training for them.
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> rather a checkbox than a brief CPU-intensive hashing session.
oh is that why my raspberry pi 5 can't browse websites anymore without freezing for a minute.
It also took insanely long on my iPhone 16. "Made with heart in Canada" but configured poorly.
their anubis difficulty is wayyy to high; 6 is overkill
Yeah, it's painful.
I get this crap when browsing on desktop a lot as well, principally because I stubbornly use Firefox as my main browser, and I habitually use a VPN when I connect my laptop to unsecured or even secured-but-accessible-to-large-numbers-of-people WiFi networks.
Like, seriously, bot detection "specialists", fuck off: I'm not a bot but your bot detection software IS shit, and I DO resent your shit software draining my battery and getting in my way. Learn to do your jobs properly, will you?
And don't come crying to me about how the problem you're trying to solve is "hard". I don't care: you chose it, you chose to considerably worsen the web browsing experience of millions of people globally, nobody made you. So go and find a different job if you're incapable of doing the one you have.
And if it's so "hard" why does your entire solution seem to be predicated on anyone's a bot if they're not running Chrome, or they are running an adblocker, or they appear to be from an unusual country that doesn't match their system language? Seriously, is this the level of sophistication you hacks operate at? To solve your "hard" problem?
You are extremely lame. Get out of my way.
> And don't come crying to me about how the problem you're trying to solve is "hard". I don't care: you chose it, you chose to considerably worsen the web browsing experience of millions of people globally, nobody made you.
Unfortunately, if you let all the bots in, they overwhelm your servers, and then nobody can access the website.
Not if you use a decentralized peer-to-peer Git forge like https://radicle.network. If one node goes down, users can still access the same issues/PRs from another endpoint.
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I assume you're offering to pay for the increased server costs?
I had some git hosting up for a while, and was serving hundreds of qps and several terabytes per month. I can only imagine want significant sites are serving.
It's indeed very annoying.
I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...
happy to report my bots have no trouble with anubis or any other pow mechanism, little bit of deno and i'm right through.
The point is to deter bots that are scraping thousands to millions of websites in parallel, not user agents.
Yeah, is it trying to mine bitcoin or something? Anubis usually takes a second but here I waited a minute and got 20% through on a modern phone.
Presumably they've configured it to use a higher difficulty challenge due to high rates of scraping on their bugtracker
Difficulty 6 which some parts of FFmpeg use, is about the highest difficulty you can assign with the default Anubis config. For me personally I only serve that difficulty if I'm near certain the user is a bot. Serving it to everyone sure is a choice.
Took less than a minute in my 5 year old xiaomi phone. It did take way longer than other Anubis sites I've seen.