What the people who like Anubis don't get is that the cost for honest people is very real, the cost for crawlers is basically $0 because: most of the people who run crawlers are just idiots and aren't paying attention to what's happening and get crap data and don't even know they are getting bounced and probably don't even look at the crap data they collect, the worst of the crawlers are running botnets using stolen CPU, the real AI companies don't have any financial discipline and wouldn't care it if anubis wasted a CPU*hour per page.

Or rather, those "click on the bus" images raise your blood pressure but are close to trivial for a bot to automate... It's all performative... We're good open source people who prove we are good open source people because we put Anubis on our page to shame those bad AI people.

Feels like the whole internet is hitting that hockey stick growth... towards becoming shit.

Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans [0]

NopeCHA: CAPTCHA Solver [1]

OF COURSE, these are band-aids on an internet under full assault.

P.S. Paywall busters are a nuisance to run through. Often, a paywalled article is syndicated (MSN does this a lot) or available at arxiv, or an author's institution, so "Use the web search, Luke."

[0] https://github.com/dessant/buster

[1] https://nopecha.com/

Whatever magic is built into the CloudFlare checkbox and my motion to click on it, I really wish was just part of the browser and my motion to click on everything else.