Unable to access forum site using Safari

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As of today, I'm unable to access the forum with the current Safari [Version 26.6.1 (20624.5.1.18.3)]. Attached image of the message I get. Ad blockers are all disabled (Adblock Plus, Ghostery).

I can access the site with SeaMonkey (FreeBSD - works to read but not post) and Firefox (macOS). Both these browsrs get the Anubis screen. Safari doesn't, just the attached message.
 

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DutchDaemon

Thread 'Forums under DDoS attack'

As you will have noticed, the Forums are either very hard to reach or very hard to use.

The Forums server in itself is entirely functional, but the 'front door' is being hammered by many thousands of IP addresses opening and closing the Forums website at a large rate (for the interested: nginx throws 499 errors), causing slowness and resource starvation.

I have made the decision to try to thwart these bots by installing the bot-check software called Anubis (go-anubis; you will recognize it from the interstitial screen before a forum page is loaded - your browser gets a little...
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An extensive search turned this up for Anubis/Safari/Vivaldi problems:

They need to either set COOKIE_SECURE=false or enable HTTPS on their webserver. This is a misconfiguration that the code can't easily statically verify.
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I was using https: but maybe the other option may work...
 
I've seen somewhere, maybe on fediverse that are quickly flooded out by new timelines, that Anubis uses javascript on user-side to force heavy math and reply.
If it's true, environments disabling javascript (or doesn't giving sufficient computing power to respond in-time) would be kicked out.
 
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