Emmanuele BassiI've said it before, but I have to say it again: my days of not taking the FSF seriously are certainly coming to a middle
The amount of pretzeling logic in that paragraph is staggering; I'm surprised the entire page didn't collapse under its own weight straight into a singularity
"The calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs"—so it's TLS, used by your web server.
"A program which does calculations that user does not want done is a form of malware"—I assume the FSF is switching to bare HTTP or Gopher, then, because I certainly didn't ask my web browser to use encryption to read that bunch of crap.
"Proprietary software is often malware"—where the hell does that sentence come from?
"if we used Anubis, we would be pressuring users into running malware"—once again, where is that coming from?
1. Anubis is using computations
2. Other bad software is using similar computations
3. Proprietary software is bad
4. Some proprietary software is malware
5. Anubis is malware
This whole thing is intellectually bankrupt
rose 
@ebassi not to defend the FSF, or the argument they're trying to make here (i use anubis myself), but anubis does use proof of work, which is indeed the same algorithm used by many cryptocurrencies. i don't think it's really fair to say that TLS is basically the same as anubis.
i think this speficially is a fair critique of anubis, not for the reasons that the FSF is suggesting, but because ideally we shouldn't be fighting wasteful, irresponsible usage of compute by requiring more wasteful compute from real clients. but unfortunately it's the best solution there is right now