I much prefer to see Anubis rather than some bullshit captcha with a grid of AI generated slop that requires 30 clicks to pass.
You mean 30 clicks before it tells you to “please try again” for no reason.
To keep training the captcha solving AI of course
“Prove that you’re human by solving these machine-generated puzzles that machines can solve to give us more data to train our machines, while we run a simple script in the background to verify that you’re human based on your browser’s metadata.”
Oh is the person riding the bicycle part of the bicycle this time? What do you want, the corner of the pedal that is just barely in the box, or the out of focus blur in the background that might be a bicycle or it might be a bear. It’s hard to tell.
(Not so) fun fact: The Anubis image is itself AI slop
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/commit/3e9a93f629e9c5a69bd7fcd6613d27ce9f5231f9
That one was, but the current one is not
I’ve read somewhere the main dev has comissioned an artist to redo the Anubis mascot.
I don’t mind the second it takes. Better than the service going down because of AI bots.
Actually the opposite for me - I love to see her for a second, brightens the day a bit, fights the evil megacorps.
Or cloudflare. Fuck cloudflare.
Can take a fair bit longer on low end devices. Don’t have an issue with it beyond that
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.
I love how toxic she is to corporate professionalism.
in what way?
He means that many people in a corporate environment wouldn’t expect a anime girl with a magnifying glass popping up on your screen, that could reflect badly on your company. Just imagine some CEO sharing his screen in a presentation and his background is a screenshot of some hentai scene or something. It wouldn’t make you seem very professional in the eye of the other corporate people.
That’s why companies that use anubis will usually pay for the subscription so they can replace the mascot with something else.
Oh I See. Fuck that sterile corpo professional shit.
Excellent idea !
It’s just a silly anime girl showing up on first page load. If you’re deathly afraid of seeming unprofessional, that’s gonna do your head in…
Spot on. There were some complaints recently made by people being afraid to be seen as a furry because she has ears and a tail. It’s hilarious
Oh man. Those people are so gd cringe it IS hilarious.
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!
Cloudflare is great compared to Recaptcha.
Anubis is the best by far.
How exactly is a proof of work engine suppose to run, without any JS work?
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh/
Apparently it just tells your browser to refresh after x seconds.
Seems utterly pointless though…
With the proof of work approach, at least it’s demanding the client consume some resources, though the ‘right’ amount is a tricky question, either it’s so trivial as to hardly matter to the scrapers, or it’s hard enough to put a dent in the scrapers’ build, but human operated low end devices are royally screwed…
Here the crawler simply schedules a resumption and moves on to other work. The crawler doesn’t need it right now and it’s free for it to wait.
I love her!!
Take this over cloudflare any day of the week
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.
Who is she supposed to be?
Anubis - an anti-scraping plugin for websites. I believe one of its claims to fame is placing LLM crawlers into “tar pits” (preventing them from eating website resources)
It does show up whenever you load into the site though, so I guess that makes their mascot stick in everyone’s head.
Thanks for explaining! ☺️ I’d seen this before I think when going to the gnome repos and was curious what it was
No idea, never seen her before.
Still better than this
Much better than cludflare and Google recapha
Her face is the response to years of enshittification; without her, the modern browsing experience would suck much harder. Glory to Anubis!
Long live the Canadian anime catgirl!
Looks way better than half the ads I normally see.
+1 Anubis, cloudflare can suck mai balls
your blog does not need an anime girl web ai firewall utility
Unfortunately, yes it does. Unless I want it to collapse regularly.
it kinda does when the web is being scraped by bots to fuel the LLMs
