All this is true, but also somewhat irrelevant. In reality the amount of actual hash work is completely negligible.

For usability reasons Anubus only requires that you to go trough a the proof of work flow only once in a given period. (I think the default is once per week.) That's just very little work.

Detecting you need to occasionally send a request trough a headless browser far more of a hassle than the PoW. If you prefer LLMs rather than normal internet search, it'll probably consume far more compute as well.

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rendx 6 days ago | parent [-]

> For usability reasons Anubus only requires that you to go trough a the proof of work flow only once in a given period. (I think the default is once per week.) That's just very little work.

If you keep cookies. I do not want to keep cookies for otherwise "stateless" sites. I have maybe a dozen sites whitelisted, every other site loses cookies when I close the tab.

	▲	account42 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A bigger problem is that you should not have to enable javascript for otherwise static sites. If you enable JS, cookies are a relatively minor issue compared to all the other ways the website can keep state about you.
	▲	username332211 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well, that's not a problem when scraping. Most scraping libraries have ways to retain cookies.