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Some thoughts on how useful Anubis really is. Combined with comments I read elsewhere about scrapers starting to solve the challenges, I'm afraid Anubis will be outdated soon and we need something else.

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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Congrats on doing it the way the website owner wants! You're now into the content, and you had to waste seconds of processing power to do so (effectively being throttled by the owner), so everyone is happy. You can't overload the site, but you can still get there after a short wait.

@Passerby6497 yes I’ve been told as much 😅

https://lemmy.world/comment/18919678

Jokes aside, I understand this was the point. I just wanted to make the point that it is feasible, if not currently economically viable