alt Hacker NewsIf you don't feel like understanding the thing to be pissed off about here are the AI crawlers, we don't feel like understanding your displeasure about the Anubis wall either. The choices are either the Anubis wall or nothing. This isn't theoretical, I've been involved in this decision: we had to either close off the service entirely, or put [something like] Anubis in front of it.
> have to face a 3s stupid nagscreens like the one of anubis, I'm very pissed off and pushed even more to bypass the website when possible to get the info I want directly from llm or search engine.
Most (freely accessible) LLMs will take more than 3s to "think". Why are you pissed off about Anubis, but not the slow LLM? And then you have to double check the LLM anyway...
> All of that because in the current lambda/cloud computing word, it became very expensive to process only a few requests.
You're making some very arrogant assumptions here. FOSS repos and bugtrackers are generally not lambda/cloud hosted.
There are a lot of phpBB/XenForo/Discourse/etc fouls out there too that get slammed hard by those, and many cases of them just shutting down rather than eating much higher hosting costs. Which, of course, further pushes online communities in the hands of corporations like Reddit and Facebook.
Most of them are simply throwing one of those tools on a VPS or such, which is perfect for their community size, and then falls over under LLM companies' botnets DDoSing them.