this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

anubis is basically a bitcoin miner, with the difficulty turned way down (and obviously not resulting in any coins), so it's inherently random. if it takes minutes it does seem like something is wrong though. maybe a network error?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

adding to this, some sites set the difficulty way higher then others, nerdvpn's invidious and redlib instances take about 5 seconds and some ~20k hashes, while privacyredirect's inatances are almost instant with less then 50 hashes each time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Just wait till they hit my homepage with a 200mb react frontend, 9 seperate tracking / analytics scripts and generic shopify scripts on it :P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Isn't that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Well, it's the scrapers that are causing the problem.