• lime!
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    271 month ago

    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?

    • @isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      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

      • RepleteLocum
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        81 month 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?

        • 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

        • JackbyDev
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          61 month ago

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

        • Random Dent
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          51 month 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.

        • @MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz
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          51 month 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