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Post #2926186

2026-05-28 13:59 UTC

@beekeeper@poa.st @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co While real free GNU anubis is GPLv3-or-later, the picture shows evil anubis, which is proprietary slopware that is claimed to be licensed under MIT expat. A program is only free software if the user can choose whether or not to run it (including whether to inspect the program before executing it). The way eanubis works is it's a malware JavaScript program that is sprung on any misconfiguration browser (yes, most web browsers execute arbitary remote JavaScript without asking and without the ability to check a program before executing it), that is a Proof of Waste programs that wastes the users CPU cycles just to waste them, while not stopping LLM scrapers (eanubis can be bypassed by default from changing the useragent to one that doesn't say "Mozilla", although LLM scrapers in practice just run the JavaScript, as they got plenty of CPU cycles to waste.). If for your reason you have a misconfigured browser, there are extensions just as JShelter that will prevent the successful execution of eanubis, so you can immediately close the page. Damn, Raptorcs is a eanubis sponsor? Such malice has made me decide to never buy any of their computers and tell others not to do the same.

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  • @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @beekeeper@poa.st @Inginsub@clubcyberia.co The corpo-rats behind Anubis implemented a js-less fallback that is disabled by default. Too little and too late now, it has spread like the cancer it is and most hosters are too incompetent or too ignorant to enable it, I bet most don't even update the thing.

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