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Meaning it wastes time and power such that it gets expensive on a large scale? Or does it mine crypto?
Yes, Anubis uses proof of work, like some cryptocurrencies do as well, to slow down/mitigate mass scale crawling by making them do expensive computation.
https://lemmy.world/post/27101209 has a great article attached to it about this.
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Edit: Just to be clear, this doesn't mine any cryptos, just uses same idea for slowing down the requests.
And, yet, the same people here lauding this for intentionally burning energy will turn around and spew vitriol at cryptocurrencies which are reviled for doing exactly the same thing.
Proof of work contributes to global warming. The only functional, IRL, difference between this and crypto mining is that this doesn't generate digital currency.
There are a very few POW systems that do good, like BOINC, which is a POW system that awards points for work done; the work is science, protein analysis, SETI searches, that sort of thing. The work itself is valuable and needs doing; they found a way to make the POW constructive. But just causing a visitor to use more electricity to "stick it" to crawlers is not ethically better than crypto mining.
Just be aware of the hypocrisy.
This isn't hypocrisy. The git repo said this was "a bit like a nuclear response", and like any nuclear response, I believe they expect everyone to suffer.
Not hypocrisy by the author, but by every reader who cheers this while hating on cryptocurrency.
IME most of these people can't tell the difference between a cryptocurrency, a blockchain, and a public ledger, but have very strong opinions about anyway.