I much prefer to see Anubis rather than some bullshit captcha with a grid of AI generated slop that requires 30 clicks to pass.

Anubis is open source, self-hosted, doesn't block me just because I use a VPN and the later versions work even with JavaScript disabled!

Fuck Cloudflare, long live Anubis!

I don't mind the second it takes. Better than the service going down because of AI bots.

I love how toxic she is to corporate professionalism.

Its also perfect marketing, the software is free with the mascot hardcoded in. The official way to change it is to contribute to get an enterprise version.

Take this over cloudflare any day of the week

Her face is the response to years of enshittification; without her, the modern browsing experience would suck much harder. Glory to Anubis!

I love her!!

Much better than cludflare and Google recapha

Who is she supposed to be?

Thank god we have anubis

Still better than this

+1 Anubis, cloudflare can suck mai balls

I'm on discuss.tchncs.de right now and its web UI lags badly probably due to a lot of bot scaping.

If we had Anubis i guess that could be avoided.

Long live the Canadian anime catgirl!

Looks way better than half the ads I normally see.

What am I missing to understand this? What is Anubis?

I've seen this briefly pop up while looking up linux stuff online recently. Wondered what it was, thank you Lemmy community for some enlightenment!

I am skeptical about the real level of protection that Anubis really provides.

At the end is an automated test. Meaning that any machine could easily solve it.

Most "attackers" wont bother solving it because they don't really care. But if they would want they could. It's sort of protection by obscurity.

The more Anubis it's used the more we see attacks that actually equip a way to solve the challenges. Then is when Anubis up the challenge and the battle begin, between how much can Anubis up the challenge so normal users can still browse and how much cost the attacker is willing to eat.

Giving that these attackers tend to have high budgets I'm not that certain about its actual capabilities to reject a targeted ddos.

As for crawling for big data. I do think that it does nothing here. Companies willing yo scrape big amounts of data, for AI training or other purposes, have massive budgets and the electricity cost of solving the JavaScript challenges become nothing in comparison. They also doesn't need ro deny the service so they could spread the scrape to keep the challenge low reducing the cost even more.

Once again, positive results we currently see in practice I believe that are caused just because most scrappers and ddos attackers are just blindly attacking and doesn't really equip themselves for Anubis. Protection by obscurity. But a well equiped attacker I don't think it would have that much trouble getting past it, specially for scrapping, or other type of bot attacks that could be slowed down.