3-letter org calls Anubis “a form of malware” they wouldn’t use on their site because they “want users to control their own computing”:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots
This is laudable but it ignores that ① one doesn’t run the proof-of-work JS code when using eww, w3m, wget or anything that doesn’t have “Mozilla” in its user-agent string, and ② what’s at stake is availability of the service: what Anubis does isn’t great, but one has yet to come up with a better solution.
Using Anubis on a static web site may be overkill (provided other things like rate limiting are in place); however, for the database-backed services we have in Guix, where each request can be expensive, I feel like we may have to use Anubis or similar at some point:
https://codeberg.org/guix/maintenance/issues/10
@civodul https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away sounds promising, given the recent FSF proclamation about the unethical flavor of Anubis
