Lemmy.ca & piefed.ca now behind anubis
2026-05-06 04:13 UTC
Replies (17)
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@Shadow@lemmy.ca 2026-05-06 05:05
 - red = obvious bots - blue = bots and users hitting the first anubis page (ie, it's 99.9% bots) - green = users.
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@Alfredolin@lemmy.wtf 2026-05-06 05:35
Bots can get rekt. I am afraid it's still gonna be cat & mouse game, let's see how long anubis works for us (I also use it for my services).
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@Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2026-05-06 17:45
Yay!! \ 
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@egerlach@lemmy.ca 2026-05-06 14:14
F the bots. Would like to be able to have nice things. Happy that at least this is the 🇨🇦-made solution (at least the primary dev, anyways). Does Fedecan have the budget to [throw a couple of bucks](https://github.com/sponsors/Xe) a month to [Xe](https://github.com/Xe)? Completely understand if not, I've done not-for-profit corps before and I know what it's like. But if the budget is there, spending it on a Canadian dev would be a nice choice, IMO.
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@Limonene@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 16:48
Name and shame. What are the useragent strings? Can the companies be identified? It won't affect me personally, because I already hate all AI companies. But maybe I could convince some people if I tell them what a specific company is doing.
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@connaisseur@feddit.org 2026-05-06 06:27
On feddit.org it was also implemented to get rid of bots and reduce load on the infrastructure. There had been some complaints because of the anubis landing page initially, however I think the general acceptance of this measure after explaining is rather high.
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-05-07 00:55
will I get anime cat girl challenges!?
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@Blaze@piefed.zip 2026-05-06 08:25
Thank you!
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@Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2026-05-07 09:30
It definitely did help for lemmy.cafe!
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@RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2026-05-06 10:44
Again. Not a cat.
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@flameleaf@ani.social 2026-05-06 17:49
Is this why Thunderbird is suddenly spouting errors whenever it checks a lemmy.ca feed? I'm not a bot. EDIT: fixed
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@quaff@lemmy.ca 2026-05-07 17:29
I'll be curious to know if y'all experience any federation issues. If not, I may introduce this on the mastodon instances I administrate!
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@MrDrProf@lemmy.ca 2026-05-07 03:26
Hell yeah! You guys are amazing!
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@9point6@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 08:00
How come you're looking for an alternative? Does it not do the job for you or something?
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@solxix@pawb.social 2026-05-06 07:34
Look into [Iocaine](https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/) and other similar "ai tarpits."
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-05-06 17:29
To my knowledge, which is often wrong, that's necessary. It's a proof of work system, so your browser has to receive the challenge work, create background workers to do it, then submit the results and get authenticated. If the work wasn't challenging (slow), then it wouldn't be any impediment to scrapers and bots. Whether there are alternatives to proof of work that work well, I do not know. But fingerprinting alone is actually very difficult.
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@9point6@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 19:26
FWIW I think cloudflare and similar do the full screen thing too, they just render a blank page though so it just feels like more load time. I don't run Anubis on my stuff currently, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't have a similar feature