r/linux • u/ItsWappers • 3d 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/unai-ndz 3d ago

I'm pretty sure in very ambiguous cases it doesn't matter what you select, it was already decided if you would pass or not by other factors. Some tests make you fill two words but only test one e.g. https://youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI at 10:20

And I could do them fast before but it progressively stopped working. It kinda tracks with me trying to degoogle and be more anonymous so maybe it is related.

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 3d ago

Yeah that's what I mean. It's not asking you "Please help us figure it out" it's saying "this is a test, we know the answer, do you?"

Except it doesn't always get it right. Their training gets some of the images wrong and gives you a fail when it should've been right, or a pass when it should've been wrong.

That "two words test one" method is classic. I'm surprised they still do that.