alt Hacker NewsAs someone on the browsing end, I love Anubis. I've only seen it a couple of times, but it sparks joy. It's rather refreshing compared to Cloudfare, which will usually make me immediately close the page and not bother with whatever content was behind it.
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Same here, really. That's why I started using it. I'd seen it pop up for a moment on a few sites I'd visited, and it was so quirky and completely not disruptive that I didn't mind routing my legit users through it.
Anyone is free to replace the cat girl with an actual cat or a vintage computer logo or whatnot anyway.
My issue is that it blocks away people using browsers without javascript.
As someone on the hosting end, Anubis has unfortunately been overused and thus scrapers, especially Huawei ones, bypass it. I've gone for go-away instead which is similar but more configurable in challenges
yes, very true! Anubis is a hell lot better than cloudflare turnstile or its older cousin sister google recaptcha.
Reminds me of weird furry porn, I can't say I like it
My experience with it is that it somehow took 20 seconds to load (site might've been hn-hugged at the time), only to "protect" some fucking static page instead of just serving that shit in the first place rather than wasting CPU on... whatever it was doing to cause delay
Yep, Anubis-chan is super cute! :)
It really reminds me of old Internet, when things were allowed to be fun. Not this tepid corporate-approved landscape we have now.