It would be cool if the POW could be done ahead of time. That way I don't get stuck waiting while I'm working. Some type of credit/tokens that my browser could then spend.

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xena 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm working on this with a private prototype. I'm probably going to lean towards using a Service Worker (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...) to renew challenges at a reduced difficulty. Stay tuned!

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That just creates another problem: if you're taking any measures to reduce tracking (ie. clearing cookies on shutdown or using temporary containers), this won't work. If anubis was being deployed on a site that a user visits often (eg. HN), the user might be convinced to whitelist it, but most anubis deployments are on random blogs or fediverse instances that I might not visit again in months. I'm certainly am not going to whitelist those sites, nor am I going to enable cookies wholesale just to avoid solving challenges.

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xena 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Look, if you're going out of your way to break expected behaviour on websites you shouldn't be surprised when people code to the most common denominator and then you have weird subtle breakage as a result.

	▲	anuthis 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>Look, let my WASM blob track you or you get what you get. That's OSS, chud.

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lxgr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or something that shadier websites could calculate ahead of time in your browser, then spend on your behalf.

I feel like Anubis is ironically speedrunning a lot of discoveries the crypto folks have already made several years ago...

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tomodachi94 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Privacy Pass does something similar to what you describe: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/privacy-pass/

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dist-epoch 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then we could implement an exchange, so that if you generate too much Anubis POW, you could exchange it with others.

We could link it to a site, you generate for HN, I for Reddit, but it so happens that you visited Reddit more and I HN, so we depleted our Anubis POW, so we could exchange some Reddit Anubis with some HN Anubis.

	▲	ssl-3 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And then, we can inextricably link it to a new cryptocurrency -- let's call it BotCoin -- and make Sam Altman pay for it!
	▲	kelvinjps10 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Basically reinventing crypto one step at the time.

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packetlost 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder if you could convince the Anubis author to implement x402 payments to bypass the PoW