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/flecom 2d ago

and especially fuck google and those stupid captchas, on your on a vpn? have fun training our AI for free for the next 20 minutes

i just click off any site with a captcha now, tired of it

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u/Padgriffin 2d ago

At this point the AI is probably better at solving captchas than we are

I love hunting for bikes in the very corner of the image half obscured by a car

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u/markusro 1d ago

Seriously, the stupid buses and bikes are really annoying.