I feel comfortable hating on Anubis for this. The compute cost per validation is vanishingly small to someone with the existing budget to run a cloud scraping farm, it’s just another cost of doing business.

The cost to actual users though, particularly to lower income segments who may not have compute power to spare, is annoyingly large. There are plenty of complaints out there about Anubis being painfully slow on old or underpowered devices.

Some of us do actually prefer to use the internet minus JS, too.

Plus the minor irritation of having anime catgirls suddenly be a part of my daily browsing.