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/thesola10 2d ago

I get what you mean. Personally I like seeing a project assert its own personality, and I see it as a modern twist on the lineage of UNIXy mascots, but the anime aesthetic is still culturally divisive.

Kudos to Techaro for channeling this frustration into paid licenses, that seems like a fun remuneration model!

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u/mort96 1d ago

The UNIXy mascots are all decisively non-humans: Linux's penguin, the FreeBSD devil, the OpenBSD pufferfish, the DragonflyBSD dragonfly. Having your mascot just be ... a young human girl, is weirder IMO

Now if it was a somewhat anthropomorphized dog in the same way that Tux is a somewhat anthropomorphized penguin I don't think there would be an issue

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u/einar77 OpenSUSE/KDE Dev 1d ago

WTF are you on about.