As 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.
It really reminds me of old Internet, when things were allowed to be fun. Not this tepid corporate-approved landscape we have now.
Anubis is simple; recaptcha and the like are huge opaque spaghetti.
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.
So maybe there are more people who like the “anime catgirl” than there are who think it’s weird
*anime jackalgirl ;-)
Quite possibly. Or, in my case, I think it's more quirky and fun than weird. It's non-zero amounts of weird, sure, but far below my threshold of troublesome. I probably wouldn't put my business behind it. I'm A-OK with using it on personal and hobby projects.
Frankly, anyone so delicate that they freak out at the utterly anodyne imagery is someone I don't want to deal with in my personal time. I can only abide so much pearl clutching when I'm not getting paid for it.
The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the main organization unifying and handling all the main HPC compute clusters in Canada) now uses Anubis for their wiki. Granted this is not a business, but still!
https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Technical_documentation
For what its worth, I think that a UN/(Unicef?) website (not sure which one) did use anubis so maybe you can put it behind businesses too :)
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.
How can one do this? Did not find it in the docs
It’s a feature in the paid version, or I guess you could recompile it if you didn’t want to pay (but my guess is if you want to change the logo you can probably pay).
The 3 images are in the repo, you can replace them and rebuild or point to other ones in the templates.
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
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
Same experience for me. I tried it on a low-end smartphone and the Anubis challenge took about 45 seconds to complete.
Reminds me of weird furry porn, I can't say I like it
yes, very true! Anubis is a hell lot better than cloudflare turnstile or its older cousin sister google recaptcha.
Yep, Anubis-chan is super cute! :)