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That's anubis, an anti web crawler tool [0] [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

nozzlegear 1y ago
Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?
- MiiMe19 1y ago
  Because it can be
- wpm 1y ago
  For reasons I struggle to understand, some people are into that sort of thing.
- xena 1y ago
  To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.
  - foresto 1y ago
    Any news on the no-script feature? I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappointed and frustrated, often deciding not to bother with the site after all.
    - xena 1y ago
      Admins need to enable the meta refresh challenge: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng... It's off by default while the false positive, true positive, true negative, and false negative rates are being evaluated. This is how you make changes like that without breaking user expectations.
      - jraph 1y ago
        That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis. Thanks for fighting the AI bots. You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.
        xena 1y ago
        There's a solid strategy behind it: give people what they want with a flaw that makes it unviable for corpos. Then sell the cure. I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it. The horrifying part in my book is that Anubis is a relative success story as far as open source funding goes, and it's barely a third of what a junior level software developer makes. It's maddening.
        jraph 1y ago
        Interesting. I suppose I need to try this if I ever happen to build something to which it could apply. Thanks for the inspiration. A third of a junior salary is not much but I guess it could help with at least turning a full time position into part time. > I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it Ah ah. Awesome. It has happened to me once or twice that I jokingly share an idea, and it gets picked up seriously (in a professional setting). "But it was a joke! Too late. Oh no." - I guess it's not too bad in the end and shouldn't be fighted too hard. I guess I'll just make sure that if the idea is horrible, I don't make the joke if I think people around could seriously pick it up.
  - nozzlegear 1y ago
    Thanks for the answer. To be clear, although I'm not a huge anime person, I don't have any issue with the mascot itself. I meant my question as "why is the Anubis mascot an anime girl [instead of an Anubis]", but it seems my intention was misread over the internet.
  - account42 1y ago
    All it's doing is enticing me to discourage anyone from using your DRM malware.
- temptemptemp111 1y ago
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- bakugo 1y ago
  Go take a look at the author's websites/socials and it should become pretty obvious why.
  - nozzlegear 1y ago
    I looked at their Bluesky profile and they mostly post about their GitHub projects.
  - jamesnorden 1y ago
    I took a look at the Github profile linked in your profile here, and it linked to a Steam profile with anime characters in the showcase section and that made your objection to the "anime girl" way more baffling.
- snvzz 1y ago
  Because she's cute; everybody loves her. It filters out people with issues.
elric 1y ago
Not a very good one, given the apparently large number of complaints by presumably legitimate users in this thread. Seems like it doesn't like users who take privacy enhancing measures.
- rice7th 1y ago
  Not really. It probably got overloaded with requests and thought that another crawler was tergeting the repository so it probably bumped up the measures.

nozzlegear 1y ago

Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?

MiiMe19 1y ago
Because it can be
wpm 1y ago
For reasons I struggle to understand, some people are into that sort of thing.
xena 1y ago
To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.
- foresto 1y ago
  Any news on the no-script feature? I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappointed and frustrated, often deciding not to bother with the site after all.
  - xena 1y ago
    Admins need to enable the meta refresh challenge: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng... It's off by default while the false positive, true positive, true negative, and false negative rates are being evaluated. This is how you make changes like that without breaking user expectations.
    - jraph 1y ago
      That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis. Thanks for fighting the AI bots. You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.
      - xena 1y ago
        There's a solid strategy behind it: give people what they want with a flaw that makes it unviable for corpos. Then sell the cure. I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it. The horrifying part in my book is that Anubis is a relative success story as far as open source funding goes, and it's barely a third of what a junior level software developer makes. It's maddening.
        jraph 1y ago
        Interesting. I suppose I need to try this if I ever happen to build something to which it could apply. Thanks for the inspiration. A third of a junior salary is not much but I guess it could help with at least turning a full time position into part time. > I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it Ah ah. Awesome. It has happened to me once or twice that I jokingly share an idea, and it gets picked up seriously (in a professional setting). "But it was a joke! Too late. Oh no." - I guess it's not too bad in the end and shouldn't be fighted too hard. I guess I'll just make sure that if the idea is horrible, I don't make the joke if I think people around could seriously pick it up.
- nozzlegear 1y ago
  Thanks for the answer. To be clear, although I'm not a huge anime person, I don't have any issue with the mascot itself. I meant my question as "why is the Anubis mascot an anime girl [instead of an Anubis]", but it seems my intention was misread over the internet.
- account42 1y ago
  All it's doing is enticing me to discourage anyone from using your DRM malware.
temptemptemp111 1y ago
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bakugo 1y ago
Go take a look at the author's websites/socials and it should become pretty obvious why.
- nozzlegear 1y ago
  I looked at their Bluesky profile and they mostly post about their GitHub projects.
- jamesnorden 1y ago
  I took a look at the Github profile linked in your profile here, and it linked to a Steam profile with anime characters in the showcase section and that made your objection to the "anime girl" way more baffling.
snvzz 1y ago
Because she's cute; everybody loves her. It filters out people with issues.

elric 1y ago

Not a very good one, given the apparently large number of complaints by presumably legitimate users in this thread. Seems like it doesn't like users who take privacy enhancing measures.

rice7th 1y ago
Not really. It probably got overloaded with requests and thought that another crawler was tergeting the repository so it probably bumped up the measures.