• Panda@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    I’ve seen this pop up on websites a lot lately. Usually it takes a few seconds to load the website but there have been occasions where it seemed to hang as it was stuck on that screen for minutes and I ended up closing my browser tab because the website just wouldn’t load.

    Is this a (known) issue or is it intended to be like this?

    • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      I have had a similar experience. Most sites with Anubis take only a few seconds to go through, but I ran into I think it was some small blog where it took at least 5 minutes. Like someone mentioned, it may have been how they set it up with number of hashes required. The site that took forever for me seemed to have some exorbitant number like 5k or 50k (I don’t recall exactly).

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      18 hours 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?

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        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

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          11 hours 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?

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            4 hours 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.

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            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