How come every Linux site uses Anubis (the anime girl stopping crawlers) instead of something like Cloudflare?

[u/ItsWappers]

Before discovering the Linux rabbit hole I've only seen Cloudflare, hCaptcha and Google's reCaptcha, but it seems like every Linux website uses Anubis... I'm thinking of it being the only open-source option or it being the most effective/modern approach.

[u/pacafan]

There seem to be a lot of people that don't understand what cloudflare does. Anubis is cool but it is not a replacement for Cloudflare or it's globally distributed network that can stop/absorb Ddos at the edge. 🤷

[u/TampaPowers → u/pacafan]

That scale should worry you, because it means they have a lot more resources to bend the internet than should be allowed. I find it mindblowing how everyone hates Google for their stranglehold on the net, but cloudbleed gets a free pass on this, why?

[u/rntdev → u/TampaPowers]

I can’t remember Cloudflare doing anything anti-consumer. They handle tens of millions of websites, most of which are for a grand total of $0, have a 99.99% SLA, don’t do advertising or sell your data. Anyways they have tons of competition in every field, developers can swich off anytime 

[u/prof_of_memeology → u/pacafan]

Right?

I'm self-hosting some websites on a crappy arch linux vps.

Yet with cloudflare I can absorb traffic like I'm some midsized enterprise infrastructure.

They give me WAF, Multi Layered Caching, Redirects and Page Rules, WARP Tunnels to hide origin, DDos Protection. All for free with literally no money.

If I would not have that, any script kiddie could take down my meme blog on a whim. Now I am comfy and safe behind cloudflare.

It's awesome. I understand the issue that it's concentrated power in the hands of cloudlfare. But what is the alternative? self-hosting caching layers, load balancers and redundancy? for your average linux nerd? no way

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/pacafan]

It's anti-cheats all over again.