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arowthway • yesterday at 9:53 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

I hate this bot-detection anime girl popping up on my monitor while I pretend to be working. Same goes for the funny pictures at the beginning of some Github readmes. Sorry for complaining about a tangential annoyance, but I haven't seen this particular sentiment expressed yet.

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megnu • yesterday at 10:22 AM

I use a uBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading:

  ! Title: Hide Anubis Image
  */.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image
sebtron • yesterday at 10:14 AM

Normally I don't mind, but on this page it took at least 15 seconds for me.

jraph • yesterday at 11:00 AM

It is expressed very often.

udjdndndjdjr • yesterday at 10:04 AM

I had an idea!

Instead of using this to do some proof of work, why not just get the bot detector to mine bitcoin or something...

I mean it is just as useless... And at least the website gets some money back from the raw extraction of data now happening...

Edit: speeeeeling

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