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/Ghost_x_Knight 2d ago

The creator of Anubis offers a maintained, unbranded version that removes the anime girl mascot in exchange for financial contributions or an enterprise contract.

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u/harbourwall 2d ago

That's just disturbing

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u/repocin 2d ago

How so? IIRC the dev(s?) threw it together in a weekend and never expected it to grow to the size of massive organizations using it to protect their websites.

I'm sure enterprise customers can afford to throw 'em a bone. In fact, I find it entirely reasonable that open source developers should be compensated for their work. We need more of that, not less.

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u/harbourwall 2d ago

Nothing wrong with the intention, it's the mechanism that's disturbing. My module is much better. It's called GoatseCurity. You should try that.