Anubis's primary goal is to prevent web scrapers from DDoSing a website. It's not meant to be an unbeatable challenge or only allow humans like Google's more privacy-invasive captchas.

You do the proof of work, you get the content. Not all web scrapers are willing to do the work, which reduces the strain put on web servers.

It's by no means a perfect system. It's goals in part prevent it from doing so. It tries to not be too annoying for humans, to not block real users, and not be privacy invasive.

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what 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>tries not to be annoying

The little anime girl is pretty off putting. I bounce when I see it.

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arn3n 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s meant to be both funny AND highly unprofessional; Anubis makes money of licensing a version of the firewall where you can change the image.

It’s a good strategy; personal websites and blogs can display the anime girl without fear, and companies that care about their image end up paying. Win-win.

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ssl-3 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It appears in places where that are neither personal websites nor blogs, and that are places where professionals conduct work.

For instance: The act of searching the Arch Linux wiki produces a picture of the anime girl.

(Should I just not use Arch professionally?)

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jdlshore 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you care that much, you can donate money to Arch to buy a commercial license, or inform your sales rep that you find their conduct unprofessional.

Or, yes, you can take the presence of the free version as a sign that the professional service is freeloading, and take your business elsewhere.

	▲	ssl-3 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I see. I take this to mean that we have some kind of (perhaps-fundamental) difference in the ways in which we understand how free software works. (That's OK, comrade. I'm not here to change you.)

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what 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There’s nothing funny about it? Also seems like a lose for the personal websites and blogs when people bounce because of it.

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himata4113 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People are mysterious indeed. Letting a widely accepted png cause that much discomfort sure is interesting.

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710dev 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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