alt Hacker NewsAnubis should be something that doesn't inconvenience all the real humans that visit your site.
I work with ffmpeg so I have to access their bugtracker and mailing list site sometimes. Every few days, I'm hit with the Anubis block. And 1/3 - 1/5 of the time, it fails completely. The other times, it delays me by a few seconds. Over time, this has turned me sour on the Anubis project, which was initially something I supported.
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I only had issues with it on GNOME's bug tracker and could work around it with a UA change, meanwhile Cloudflare challenges are often unpassable in qutebrowser no matter what I do.
I don't understand the hate when people look at a countermeasure against unethical shit and complain about it instead of being upset at the unethical shit. And it's funny when it's the other way around, like cookie banners being blamed on GDPR not on the scumminess of some web operators.
I understand why ffmpeg does it. No one is expected to pay for it. Until this age of LLMs when bot traffic became dominant on the web ffmpeg site was probably acceptable expense. But they probably don't want to be unpaid data provider for big LLM operators who get to extract a few bucks from their users.
It's like airplane checkin. Are we inconvenienced? Yes. Who is there to blame? Probably not the airline or the company who provides the services. Probably people who want to fly without a ticket or bring in explosives.
As long as Anubis project and people on it don't try to play both sides and don't make the LLM situation worse (mafia racket style), I think if it works it works.
I've finally found a ruleset that works for that fwiw. The newest release has that fix.