Comment by Aurornis
14 hours ago
> Bots want to open many orders of magnitude more pages than a normal user, so the resource investment for each single page matters a lot more to them
Depending on the configuration, Anubis will supply a token after the challenge that bypasses the challenge for a time.
So any scraper that retains basic cookies will be able to bypass the challenge for a number of page views.
A user who needs to load a single page and a bot that wants to scrape a number of pages may pay the same cost.
The amortized per-view cost is highest for the real user.
Now you have a session of sorts and can limit the requests for that client, right? They can be fast, just limited in volume - regular user isn't punished.
yep, that's the exact play. Or better fingerprinted & blocked in other ways
So, they can interleave different tokens and get stopless access at normal price?
Yes this needs to be tailored for Anubis, but that was the point: the moment it will become popular enough, scrapers will have no problems to bypass it.