I never really saw the point of Anubis. It feels like a anti DDoS tool that's being repurposed for web scraping.

Anubis is the only anti-"rude corporate http requests amounts" that doesn't only rely on cutting edge javascript VM features. Simple mitigations like the HTML header meta-refresh proof-of-work(waiting) work in all browsers going back 20 years. Rather than just supporting browsers from the last 3~ months like cloudflare.