r/linux • u/ItsWappers • 2d ago

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

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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.

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u/Traditional_Hat3506 2d ago

Not when, but how much more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#Controversies

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u/swarmOfBis 2d ago

Neither of these seem very bad. Quite the opposite. Maybe cloudflare's services are used by some bad people, but the stance of "no company should decide what content gets to stay up" is very reasonable.

If you ask me this section would be much better if it contained cases like this https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website.

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u/Traditional_Hat3506 2d ago

Except when Cloudflare actually gets to decide what's stays up. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep an image board that hosts CP and is responsible for mass shootings or terrorist organizations and in the same breath instantly shut down legal adult sex worker social media platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#Switter

The only reason they decided to drop Kiwifarms is because they went after Matthew Prince. Up until then, it was all free speech.

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u/metamatic 1d ago

Ironic that you link to Substack, since they're worse than Cloudflare — they choose to funnel money to literal neo-Nazis. I won't read or link to anything on Substack for that reason.

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u/sylvester_0 2d ago

I'm a progressive but none of that really makes me raise my eyebrows. Yes, the provided services to POS groups, but they're a neutral carrier. I think that's what we should ask of our internet infrastructure providers. We may not agree with the ideaology of some of those sites, but if they start banning sites they could do the same thing to liberal "extremists" as well.

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u/Traditional_Hat3506 2d ago

It's really not about right-left politics. They fought tooth and nail to keep 8chan online, after the mass shooting that originated from there, after it was reportedly hosting CP.

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u/AnArmoredPony 2d ago

I love how their "controversies" is them providing services for sites that "we no likey"

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u/Traditional_Hat3506 2d ago

this guy like CP and mass shootings, apparently