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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?

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Post by Aachen »

throwawayffffas wrote: post #195
zahlman wrote: post #92

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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.

Nope, they're on cloudflare so that all my banking traffic can be intercepted by a foreign company I have no relation to. The web is really headed in a great direction :)

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by Aachen »

hdndiebf wrote: post #483
rootsudo wrote: post #59

When I instantly read it, I knew it was anubis. I hope the anime catgirls never disapear from that project :)

This anime thing is the one thing about computer culture that I just don't seem to get. I did not get it as child, when suddenly half of children cartoons became animes and I just disliked the aestheic. I didn't get it in school, when people started reading mangas . I'll probably never get it. Therefore I sincerely hope, they do go away from anubis, so I can further dwell in my ignorance.

You don't have to get it to be able to accept that others like it. Why not let them have their fun?

This sounds more as though you actively dislike anime than merely not seeing the appeal or being "ignorant". If you were to ignore it, there wouldn't be an issue...

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by account42 »

armada651 wrote: post #687
octo888 wrote: post #656

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It's sad that for a lot of people their only exposure to anime seems to be porn and thus that's all they can think of when they see something drawn in that style.

You're being very dishonest if your claim is that sexualization of suspiciously young looking characters isn't a big part of Anime culture.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by squigz »

pkal wrote: post #562

Superficial comment regarding the catgirl, I don't get why some people are so adamant and enthusiastic for others to see it, but if you like me find it distasteful and annoying, consider copying these uBlock rules: https://sdf.org/~pkal/src+etc/anubis-ublock.txt . Brings me joy to know what I am not seeing whenever I get stopped by this page :)

I don't get why so many people find it "distasteful and annoying"

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by ehnto »

rob_c wrote: post #572
ehnto wrote: post #535

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It's been going on for decades now too. It's a cat and mouse game that will be with us for as long as people try to exploit online resources with bots. Which will be until the internet is divided into nation nets, suffocated by commercial interests, and we all decide to go play outside instead.

No. This went into overdrive in the "AI" (crawlers for massive LLM for ML chatbot) era. Frankly it's something I'm sad we don't yet see a lawsuit for similar to the times v OpenAI. A lot of "new crawlers" claim to innocently forget about established standards like robots.txt I just wish people would name and shame the massive companies at the top stomping on the rest of the internet in an edge to "get a step up over…

That doesn't really challenge what I said, there's not much "different this time" except the scale is commensurate to the era. Search engine crawlers used to take down websites as well.

I understand and agree with what you are saying though, the cat and mouse is not necessarily technical. Part of solving the searchbot issue was also social, with things like robots.txt being a social contract between companies and websites, not a technical one.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by account42 »

squigz wrote: post #714
pkal wrote: post #562

Superficial comment regarding the catgirl, I don't get why some people are so adamant and enthusiastic for others to see it, but if you like me find it distasteful and annoying, consider copying these uBlock rules: https://sdf.org/~pkal/src+etc/anubis-ublock.txt . Brings me joy to know what I am not seeing whenever I get stopped by this page :)

I don't get why so many people find it "distasteful and annoying"

You could respect it without "getting" it though.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by account42 »

Aachen wrote: post #712
hdndiebf wrote: post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This anime thing is the one thing about computer culture that I just don't seem to get. I did not get it as child, when suddenly half of children cartoons became animes and I just disliked the aestheic. I didn't get it in school, when people started reading mangas . I'll probably never get it. Therefore I sincerely hope, they do go away from anubis, so I can further dwell in my ignorance.

You don't have to get it to be able to accept that others like it. Why not let them have their fun? This sounds more as though you actively dislike anime than merely not seeing the appeal or being "ignorant". If you were to ignore it, there wouldn't be an issue...

They can have their fun on their personal websites. Subjecting others to your "fun" when you knows it annoys them is not cool.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by lupusreal »

technion wrote: post #362
johnklos wrote: post #244

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…

It really should be recognised just how many people are watching Cloudflare interstitials on nearly every site these days (and I totally get why this happens) yet making a huge amount of noise about Anubis on a very small amount of sites.

Over the past few years I've read far more comments complaining about Cloudflare doing it than Anubis. In fact, this discussion section is the first time I've seen people talking about Anubis.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by jakogut »

Aachen wrote: post #701
elric wrote: post #488

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I hit Cloudflare's garbage about as much as I hit Anubis. With the difference that far more sites use Cloudflare than Anubis, thus Anubis is far worse at triggering false positives.

Huh? What false positives does Anubis produce? The article doesn't say and I constantly get the most difficult Google captchas, cloudflare block pages saying "having trouble?" (which is a link to submit a ticket that seems to land in /dev/null), IP blocks because user agent spoofing, errors "unsupported browser" when I don't do user agent spoofing... the only anti-bot thing that reliably works on all my clients is An…

I've had Anubis repeatedly fail to authorize me to access numerous open source projects, including the mesa3d gitlab, with a message looking something like "you failed".

As a legitimate open source developer and contributor to buildroot, I've had no recourse besides trying other browsers, networks, and machines, and it's triggered on several combinations.

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