Anubis often takes more than 60 seconds to complete on low-end devices (especially old smartphones). It seems like there's no good solution.

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QuantumNomad_ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

But after you’ve completed the Anubis PoW challenge for a site, it remains valid for some amount of time.

So it’s not quite as horrible as it sounds.

I have setting up Anubis for my own sites on my todo list. And I wish more people did it too. I don’t really mind waiting a little bit extra every now and then before the page loads. What I do mind is ReCaptcha asking me to click all the pictures with buses in them etc. And especially when I have to do it several times over before it’s happy. I’d rather wait a minute for a page to load than to ever solve a ReCaptcha again, if given the choice.

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dangus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That must be really low end then. I’ve never seen it complete in a timeframe that was slower than “I can’t even read the page before it redirects”

	▲	titularcomment 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My guess is its an implementation error, not an hardware limitation. I have two 10-year-old devices and one passes instantaneously while the other halts for a good half minute every time.

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ImPostingOnHN 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's not an easy, perfect solution, for sure. Newer phones get faster, but spammer compute gets cheaper.

Some sort of decentralized trust web seems like another option, though less viable.

	▲	WesolyKubeczek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		One of unexpected outcomes from AI-induced hardware shortage may be that, in fact, compute won’t be getting cheaper and may in fact get more expensive…