Anubis rarely ever annoys me (I still prefer it over cloudflare’s Mitm) but this specific visit feels almost vindictive. It used half my CPU cores at full blast for three straight minutes.
It seems to be effective since I can’t really “bypass” it with extensions, so AI crawlers probably can’t either, but damn there really should be an option to complete a manual captcha or email the administrators to complain.
As I’m typing this the challenge is still running xD
The difficulty is typically dynamic based on current request load. At this difficulty typically means their server is getting hammered really hard, better this than the server just respond with a bad gateway error.
It would be better to serve a static page saying “the server is getting hammered really hard”, and, if possible, context about the duration of the current event and historical frequency.
Disagree, that just stops me from using it completely instead of just having to wait a bit
Waiting 3 minutes stops me from using a site. If it’s something I really need I’ll check back in an hour or two, when hopefully it’s not getting hammered; the same for both approaches.