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At this future point, AI firms will simply rent people’s identities to use online.
They are already getting people hooked on "free" access so they will have plenty of subjects willing to do that to keep that access.
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> Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it. Anubis only serves you the challenge if you have that. Won't that break many other things? My understanding was that basically everyone's user-agent string nowadays is packed with a full suite of standard lies.
In 2025 I think most of the web has moved on from checking user strings. Your bank might still do it but they won't be running Anubis.
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It's an aversion to the sexualised depiction of girls barely the age of puberty or under the age of consent. I'd ask why you /don't/ have an aversion to that? (yes, "not all anime" etc...)
I don't know why OP said 'young' at all. It has no characteristics pointing to age, and secondary gender characteristics. So I'd ask why that makes you think of sexual consent.
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>Not only is Anubis a poorly thought out solution from an AI sympathizer [...] But the project description describes it as a project to stop AI crawlers? > Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
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>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please. Take a wild guess
Please show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.
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>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please. Take a wild guess
Well that tells me the rough cultural area alt187 might be pointing to, but I could use some more clarity. Are you saying that pronouns/transgender/queerness are the ideology? Or are you showing them as shibboleths of a broader ideological tendency that's prevailing in FOSS?
This is a usually technical crowd, so I can't help but wonder if many people genuinely don't get it, or if they are just feigning a lack of understanding to be dismissive of Anubis. Sure, the people who make the AI scraper bots are going to figure out how to actually do the work. The point is that they hadn't, and this worked for quite a while. As the botmakers circumvent, new methods of proof-of-notbot will be made…
That's the opposite of being dismissive. The author has taken the time to deeply understand both the problem and the proposed solution, and has taken the time to construct a well-researched and well-considered argument.
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If you are going to rely on security through obscurity there are plenty of ways to do that that won't block actual humans because they dare use a non-mainstream browser. You can also do it without displaying cringeworthy art that is only there to get people to pay for the DRM solution you are peddling - that shit has no place in the open source ecosystem.
On the contrary: Making things look silly and unprofessional so that Big Serious Corporations With Money will pay thousands of dollars to whitelabel them is an OUTSTANDING solution for preserving software freedom while raising money for hardworking developers.
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> Normal users don't do certain site actions at the speed that scraper bots do How would you know when you have already banned them.
Simple. A honeypot link in a three levels deep menu which no ordinary human would care about that, thanks to a JS animation, needs at least half a second for a human to click on. Any bot that clicks it in less than half a second gets the banhammer. No need for invasive tracking, third party integrations, whatever.
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> If that's true Anubis should just remove the proof-of-work part This is my very strong belief. To make it even clearer how absurd the present situation is, every single one of the proof-of-work systems I’ve looked at has been using SHA-256, which is basically the worst choice possible. Proof-of-work is bad rate limiting which depends on a level playing field between real users and attackers. This is already a doome…
The proof of work isn't really the crux. They've been pretty clear about this from the beginning. I'll just quote from their blog post from January. https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/ Anubis also relies on modern web browser features: - ES6 modules to load the client-side code and the proof-of-work challenge code. - Web Workers to run the proof-of-work challenge in a separate thread to avoid blocking the UI thread.…