>It’s not stopping anyone.
You could just spend 30 seconds googling instead of confidently asserting nonsense. There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic.
You could just spend 30 seconds googling instead of confidently asserting nonsense. There are plenty of people demonstrating that Anubis reduces bot traffic.
"Anubis reduces bot traffic" and "[the proof of work] is not stopping anyone" isn't contradictory, especially if anubis isn't being benchmarked against non-POW alternatives like IP/ASN bans, or tls fingerprinting.
* Sometimes there's a pattern to the country. Oftentimes, not.
* User-agent, rotated between common, valid, current web browsers.
* Other headers, sec-*, accept, etc, generally valid and rotating.
* Bots will load the site to saturation in a denial of wallet attack.
The only thing that's specific is: * urls have a pattern.
* it's obviously invalid traffic.
(non-bot traffic on my sites does not go from 0 to 200r/sec on the search interface in seconds. It does not go away that fast either)