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Gnome's new video player, Showtime, gets merged into the main branch. The new video player will replace Totem on Gnome 49. (gitlab.gnome.org)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Websites are getting hammered by AI bots stealing content and jacking up their bandwidth usage. So they use a piece of software called Anubis which, for some reason, has a cartoon nurse that will grant or deny you access based on if she thinks you are human or AI. For some reason, she thinks I am AI so I can’t access the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Or for some reason you are an AI that thinks it's a person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Butter robot: “oh my god”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Wonder if any of this is the reason why.

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.
Fetch API to communicate with the Anubis server.
Web Cryptography API to generate the proof-of-work challenge.
This ensures that browsers are decently modern in order to combat most known scrapers. It's not perfect, but it's a good start.

This will also lock out users who have JavaScript disabled, prevent your server from being indexed in search engines, require users to have HTTP cookies enabled, and require users to spend time solving the proof-of-work challenge.

This does mean that users using text-only browsers or older machines where they are unable to update their browser will be locked out of services protected by Anubis. This is a tradeoff that I am not happy about, but it is the world we live in now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

Any website that blocks users with JS disabled doesn't deserve to be used. Terrible software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

That cartoon is so misleading, I thought I was deceived and sent to a bogus site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Lots of sites use her now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

I'll take Anubis over Google's capchas