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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But they can still scrape it, it just costs them computation?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Correct. Anubis' goal is to decrease the web traffic that hits the server, not to prevent scraping altogether. I should also clarify that this works because it costs the scrapers time with each request, not because it bogs down the CPU.