I might agree, still one could argue that brand recognisability is contributing to the service as well.
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CameronDev@programming.dev 2 weeks agoA HTTP get request is a few hundred bytes. The response is 28KB. Thats 280x. If a large botnet wanted to denial of service an Anubis protected site, requesting that image could be enough.
Ideally, Anubis should serve as little data as possible until the POW is completed. Caching the POW algorithm (and the image) to a CDN would also mitigate the issue.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
CameronDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Definitely, which is why i suggested hosting the image + js on a CDN. Keeps brand awareness, and lets the CDN take the brunt of any malicious activity. with a bit of code-golfing, the data served by Anubis directly prior to POW could be a few hundred bytes, without impacting its functionality.
teolan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The whole point of Anubis is to not have to go through a CDN to sustain scrapping botnets
CameronDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I dunno that is true, nothing in the docs indicates that it is explicitly anti-CDN. And using a CDN for a static javascript resource and an image isn’t the same as running the entire site through a CDN proxy.