Anubis is the penicillin of web hosting.

Every individual practitioner has a strong incentive to overuse it, because it's extremely effective for them individually. Every additional practitioner that uses it increases the selection pressure on their collective adversary to develop resistance. Eventually, it reaches a tipping point and becomes ineffective. But the ecosystem-level impact of its historical use remains, and makes things worse for everyone.

Recently, the baseline expectations of the Web have shifted, and I need to enable JavaScript to read a non-CloudFlare-proxied simple HTML site like LKML. I do not expect this shift will revert once Anubis outlives its effectiveness.

Viruses do not have motivations, so it’s hard to assign blame to them. The companies running badly behaving AI scrapers are run by people with more of a mind than viruses, so please direct your complaints about the second order effects of their actions that way, rather than on their direct victims.

I do want to note that my website has Anubis, and does not require Javascript. You can configure Anubis to test in other ways, JS is just the default.