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Yes, I also strongly suspect that this is only going to move more parts of scrapers onto consumer devices. The egress proxies are already there, why not use a little bit of the compute as well?


When you force a low end device to burn CPU or fill ram constantly, the owner throws it out and buys a new one.


Haha, no. The average tech illiterate person tolerates a LOT when it comes to bad performance on low end devices.


The malware already results in noticeable slowdown just running the scraper. Solving anubis challenges is significantly more difficult than simply requesting the page, so it is not feasible on-device without making the device totally unusable.


That's just not possible in many parts of the world.




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