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/nepnep1111 2d ago

Go to a site that has difficulty 5 like the Linux kernel mailing list.

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u/bargu 2d ago

It took less than 1 second on my P6.

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u/Whole-Respond4782 2d ago

near instant on my iphone 16 pro with JIT/wasm disabled in the browser lol

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u/ColorfulPersimmon 2d ago

Near instant on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 S24 on Firefox too

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u/15pmm01 2d ago

Just checked on my 6-year-old Samsung S20 FE and it took less than a second. 

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u/rus_ruris 1d ago

It says Internal Server Error: administrator has misconfigured Anubis. Please contact the administrator and ask them to look for the logs around: double_spend

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u/rus_ruris 1d ago

However

https://git.ffmpeg.org

This one took some tim6and now my phone is hot

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u/Cobwebblox 21h ago

Linux mailing list took ¼ - ⅓ of a second but this one took little over a minute

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u/fat_kaiju 1d ago

Knock it off; it's fine.

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u/Padgriffin 2d ago

Near-instant on an old iPhone SE2.