Anubis doesn't use enough resources to deter AI bots. If you really want to go this way, use React, preferably with more than one UI framework.
Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh I totally reacted to the title. The last few times Anubis has been the topic there's always comments about "cringy" mascot and putting that front and center in the title just made me believe that anime catgirls was meant as an insult.
Honestly I am okay with anime catgirls since I just find it funny but still it would be cool to see linux related stuff. Imagine mr tux penguin gif of him racing in like supertuxcart for the linux website. sourcehut also uses anubis but they have removed the anime catgirl thing with their own logo, I think disroot also does that I am not sure though
Sourcehut uses go-away, not Anubis.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#103When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)
It's more likely that the project itself will disappear into irrelevance as soon as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW (which is trivial for them, as the post explains) or figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla" from their user-agent to bypass it entirely.
It's more about the (intentional?) DDoS from AI scrappers, than preventing them from accessing the content. Bandwidth is not cheap.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#104Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?
It's crazy ( especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".
"Anime pfp" stereotype is alive and well.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (Why do I do it? For most of them I don't enable JS so the challenge wouldn't pass anyway. For the ones that I do enable JS for, various self-hosted gitlab instances, I don't consent to my electricity being used for this any more than if it was mining Monero or something.) Hm. If your site is "sticky", can it mine Monero or something in the background? We need a browser warning: "This site is using your computer he…
We need a browser warning: "This site is using your computer heavily in a background task. Do you want to stop that?" Doesn't Safari sort of already do that? "This tab is using significant power", or summat? I know I've seen that message, I just don't have a good repro.
Edge does, as well. It drops a warning in the middle of the screen, displays the resource-hogging tab, and asks whether you want to force-close the tab or wait.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#106Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?
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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#107When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)
It's more likely that the project itself will disappear into irrelevance as soon as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW (which is trivial for them, as the post explains) or figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla" from their user-agent to bypass it entirely.
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Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Volume, primarily - the scrapers are running full-tilt, which many dynamic websites aren't designed to handle: https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163
Why not just actually rate-limit everyone, instead of slowing them down with proof-of-work?
My understanding is that AI scrapers rotate IPs to bypass rate-limiting. Anubis requires clients to solve a proof-of-work challenge upon their first visit to the site to obtain a token that is tied to their IP and is valid for some number of requests -- thus forcing impolite scrapers to solve a new PoW challenge each time they rotate IPs, while being unobtrusive for regular users and scrapers that don't try to bypass rate limits.
It's like a secondary rate-limit on the ability of scrapers to rotate IPs, thus allowing your primary IP-based rate-limiting to remain effective.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#109When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)
It's more likely that the project itself will disappear into irrelevance as soon as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW (which is trivial for them, as the post explains) or figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla" from their user-agent to bypass it entirely.
> as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW
That's what it's for, isn't it? Make crawling slower and more expensive. Shitty crawlers not being able to run the PoW efficiently or at all is just a plus. Although:
> which is trivial for them, as the post explains
Sadly the site's being hugged to death right now so I can't really tell if I'm missing part of your argument here.
> figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla" from their user-agent
And flag themselves in the logs to get separately blocked or rate limited. Servers win if malicious bots identify themselves again, and forcing them to change the user agent does that.
Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
#110When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)
It's more likely that the project itself will disappear into irrelevance as soon as AI scrapers bother implementing the PoW (which is trivial for them, as the post explains) or figure out that they can simply remove "Mozilla" from their user-agent to bypass it entirely.
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