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daxuak • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

For me to open 5 pages, which is more than often when I search with google etc, that all have Anubis, will take more time for them to load than that I ask chatgpt and it generates an answer from web search, at least in some cases. It is 100% virtue signaling that has no technical fundamentals to deter scrappers, which likely implement better solvers and have virtually unlimited amount of time and compute to spare, it just punishes me who have a body and a limited time budget. Humiliating even for a split of a second. Now I just skip any website that I do not care enough and has Anubis; the ones I have to visit, I will remember their mindless choice forever.


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Grombobulous • yesterday at 9:30 PM

We can make up unrealistic scenarios all day long but I just don’t believe for a second that anyone is this inconvenienced by it.

The idea that you’re in desperate need to get information from 5 web pages as quickly as possible like you’re a contestant on The Amazing Race is ridiculous. This is the definition of dramatic.

Anubis finishes up in less time than takes to read this sentence.

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