old.lemmy.today is now behind Anubis for bot protection (lemmy.today)

submitted 15 hours ago by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/lemmytoday@lemmy.today

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Hi guys,

We are now trying out Anubis in front of https://old.lemmy.today/ to see if we can block many of the bots scraping lemmy content.

You will notice an image saying Anubis is checking if you are a bot, and then things should work normally after that.

There are many millions of ips trying to scrape lemmy content so blocking on ip level is difficult. Hopefully this improves the situation somewhat. :)

Thanks to @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for sharing info about Anubis!

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[-] sanitation@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago

never heard of anubis, wth is that

[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

You have very probably seen its logo on various websites that are using it, showing up before the content does:

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago

Ive seen this before too but never thought about what it was. :)

[-] sanitation@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

Oh ya now that I think about it I did

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It sits between your web browser and old.lemmy.today and detects if you are a bot. If you are, your request doesn't pass through Anubis. It's Gandalf saying "you shall not pass".

So it will hopefully cut down on bots scraping the instance. Or it will piss them off even more. :)

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