Anubis rarely ever annoys me (I still prefer it over cloudflare’s Mitm) but this specific visit feels almost vindictive. It used half my CPU cores at full blast for three straight minutes.
It seems to be effective since I can’t really “bypass” it with extensions, so AI crawlers probably can’t either, but damn there really should be an option to complete a manual captcha or email the administrators to complain.
As I’m typing this the challenge is still running xD
I wish AI scrapes didn’t make the Internet unusable to the point of them using Cloudflare MITM or Anubis
My country’s public TV stopped offering subtitle downloads for shows that can’t be streamed online
(The transcript was always easily available with second-accurate timing by clicking the ㏄ button next to any subtitled program, whether or not it was available for streaming (usually indefinitely for old ČT production, 14 days for old movies and recent ČT production, never for new movies or shows). One person used this transcript of a documentary on nutria breeding verbatim (no edits except stage instructions and punctuation) to create a somewhat dadaist sci-fi musical featuring intellligent alien beings that happen to be called Nutria. And the frame-accurate, albeit Teletext-restricted (Czech+Slovak+German uppercase/lowercase alphabet only, 38x2, 1 subtitle/s, 7 colors) subtitles were also available by applying a simple Regex to the show page’s URL. Now a unique subtitle URL is generated only when the server and JavaScript + WideVine player complete a handshake.)