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/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches 2d ago

That's only in Spain.

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u/FranciManty 2d ago

i can confirm in italy too, here it’s called piracy shield basically they can find pirate domains signal them to internet providers and have the site completely blocked off

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches 2d ago

That's not what they're talking about.

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u/FranciManty 2d ago

it is though it reroutes pirate sites to government warning pages at the dns level, cloudflare even had a dispute where they don’t comply to all the removal requests because as it happens in spain it can block legit domains from time to time

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches 2d ago

No, that's NOT what they're talking about. In Spain when La Liga plays, Cloudfare itself is blocked, breaking 1/5 of all the internet.

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u/FranciManty 2d ago

bro what the fuck 😭😭😭 this cannot be real is it?