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Unable to access lemmy.ml from my desktop. Anubis bot protection takes 36 minutes and then fails. CPU is Intel Celeron G530 from 2011. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by tree@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Difficulty: 6, Speed: 8.689kH/s

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Are you using a shady VPN or so? It is very unlikely that lemmy.ml defaults to difficulty 6 for all visitors. There is likely something that makes your connection look shady so that you get pre-sorted to the bad pile.

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I got a difficulty 6 anubis challenge earlier today from my home network, so from a residential ip address.

It was with the latest firefox.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe you have a smart-TV that is abused as a residential proxy? Many apps sell this to AI scrapers instead of or in addition to showing you ads.

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There are a devices I can think of. Thanks! I'll look into it.

Sadly, not everyone cares about computer security. *cough*^old apple laptop for which the latest supported firefox release still uses the old UI as personal laptop^*cough*

[–] tree@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

No VPN. ISP is Comcast in USA. My OS is Windows 7, not sure if it considers that to be shady. Was using "Pale Moon" web browser at first. Then I tried in different browsers and had similar results in Chrome and Firefox.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Your OS has been out of mainline support for over a decade. Out of extended support for 6 years. No wonder it's tripping security flags left and right, you're entire machine is a walking security disaster. Well past time to move to a modern OS. You can't ask for support for an OS that's been out of support longer than Lemmy has even existed.

[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Windows 7 hasn't received security updates for ages. Your machine is probably part of seven bot nets.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

OPs CPU is an absolute potato. My work laptop has a 13th gen Core i9 and it took about 10 seconds to get through at ~700kH/s and that pegged my CPU the entire time. And according to geekbench my CPU is 800% faster single core and 2400% faster multi. Anubis, and any proof of work blocker is just not friendly to old hardware.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/1470080?baseline=14969576

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/5a2feb3c-7588-41d9-a2bf-fbd1d2ff4231.webp

I just tested on my M4 Max machine which absolutely destroys the i9 and it still took about 10 seconds of churning away almost full power to get through. Neither of these machines should be flagged in any way shape or form as bots or needing that deep of an inspection.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The speed of the CPU is entirely irrelevant to what I wrote 🤷

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

The speed of the CPU is entire relevant to Anubis though. The faster the CPU the faster it does the POW, and the faster it lets you in.