>It's less proof of work and just annoying to users, and feel good to whoever added it to their site,

this is being disproved in the article posted:

>And so Anubis was enabled in the tar pit at difficulty 1 (lowest setting) when requests were pouring in 24/7. Before it was enabled, it was getting several hundred-thousand requests each day. As soon as Anubis became active in there, it decreased to about 11 requests after 24 hours, most just from curious humans.

apparently it does more than annoying users and making the site owner feel good (well, i suppose effective bot blocking would make the site owner feel quite good)

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Aurornis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Anubis difficulty setting is (or was) so high that nobody could visit the site without leaving it open for minutes or hours.

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GeoAtreides 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>Anubis was enabled in the tar pit at difficulty 1 (lowest setting) when requests were pouring in 24/7

>difficulty 1 (lowest setting)

literally in the comment you're responding to

	▲	tredre3 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> After 2 minutes at 150 kHashes on mobile, I finally see the first pixel of the progress bar filling up. Seems like it will take hours or a day to finish. Some estimate would have been nice. Literally the grandparent of the comment chain you're responding to.

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bawolff 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That doesnt mean the PoW is doing anything, it might just mean bots have js disabled.

I dont think the person was claiming annubis doesnt work, they were disputing PoW is the reason it actually works.

	▲	drum55 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, Anubis is just non standard and obscure, the proof of work bit is completely irrelevant (except for getting people on their phone to not visit your website).