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Precisely that's my point. It fits a very small risk profile. People who is going to be ddosed but not by a big agent.
It's not the most common risk profile. Usually ddos attacks are very heavy or doesn't happen at all. These "half gas" ddos attacks are not really common.
I think that's why when I read about Anubis is never in a context of ddos protection. It's always on a context of "let's fuck AI", like this precise line of comments.
There's heavy, and then there's heavy. I don't have any experience dealing with threats like this myself, so I can't comment on what's most common, but we're talking about potentially millions of times more resources for the attacker than the defender here.
There is a lot of AI hype and AI anti-hype right now, that's true.
I do. I have a client with a limited budget whose websites I'm considering putting behind Anubis because it's getting hammered by AI scrapers.
It comes in waves, too, so the website may randomly go down or slow down significantly, which is really annoying because it's unpredictable.