alt Hacker News> But it still works, right? People use Anubis because it actually stops LLM bots from scraping their site, so it must work, right?
> Yeah, but only because the LLM bots simply don’t run JavaScript.
I don't think that this is the case, because when Anubis itself switched from a proof-of-work to a different JavaScript-based challenge, my server got overloaded, but switching back to the PoW solution fixed it [0].
I also semi-hate Anubis since it required me to add JS to a website that used none before, but (1) it's the only thing that stopped the bot problem for me, (2) it's really easy to deploy, and (3) very few human visitors are incorrectly blocked by it (unlike Captchas or IP/ASN bans that have really high false-positive rates).