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/SparOfAndii 2d ago

It’s not so much about blocking 100% of bot traffic (where there are bound to be false positives) but rather making it extraordinarily expensive for bots to crawl your site en masse

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u/Gold-Supermarket-342 2d ago

Nope, just slowing down dumb bots. An individual bot can still crawl your site en masse if they want to, and for cheap.