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I believe the tool is Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by davidee · 2025-08-02 · in A dive into open chat protocols

…tried Anubis? It was all over the internet a few months ago. I wonder if it actually works well. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by Sammi · 2025-07-17 · in I was wrong about robots.txt

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Anubis – Open-Source Web AI Firewall Utility

story by colesantiago · 2025-07-06 · 3 comments

Something like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis ? It's not that different from CF, but you control it fully.

comment by Wilder7977 · 2025-07-03 · in Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

…to think of a web related library that has spread faster than Anubis checker. It's everywhere now! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis I'm surprised we don't see more efforts to rate limit. I assume many of these are distributed crawlers,…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-02 · in Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

…of anubis tries to detect bots and changes the difficulty of the proof of work based on that. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/botPolici...

comment by vhcr · 2025-06-25 · in Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

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Show HN: Wicketkeeper - A self-hosted, privacy-friendly proof-of-work captcha

story by a-ve · 2025-06-07 · 0 comments

…that solves the mentioned antispam problem. For almost everyone, Anubis does its job as intended. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by x-complexity · 2025-05-29 · in A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems

…instance, traffic on it fell by 97%[3]. [1] - https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away [2] - https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis [3] - https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by... : " According to Bart Piotrowski, in…

comment by ArinaS · 2025-05-15 · in Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative

From looking at some of the rules like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/bots/head... it seems that Anubis explicitly punishes bots that are "honest" about their user agent - I might be missing something, but isn't this…

comment by Tiberium · 2025-05-02 · in Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

…ask nicely to not change out the images shipped as a whitelabel service is planned in the future https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/204#issuecomment-27...

comment by unsnap_biceps · 2025-05-01 · in Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

…or respectful to other peoples' resources, then people have the right to deny them to you. [0] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by ujkhsjkdhf234 · 2025-04-27 · in Wikipedia: Database Download

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Anubis weighs the soul of incoming requests to stop AI crawlers

story by 0xC0ncord · 2025-04-16 · 1 comment

see https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/16 There is going to be a pretty big refactor soon, but once that's done we plan on crushing this out.

comment by JsonCameron · 2025-04-15 · in Anubis Works

…However, for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you. [1]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/

comment by AnonC · 2025-04-13 · in Anubis Works

It appears they're using https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis for the proof of work proxy

comment by unsnap_biceps · 2025-04-02 · in Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers

I believe that's what this project aims to do: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by surfaceofthesun · 2025-04-02 · in Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

mandatory link: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis It's an interesting project, I wish there would be better ways to do that, but I guess we are on war with crawlers for a while already.

comment by szszrk · 2025-04-02 · in Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

I'm working on scraper bot filtering software! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis . This week I'm going to publish the plans for building binary packages (both distribution-specific packages and tarballs full of binaries).

comment by xena · 2025-03-31 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

Anubis (or something similar) is an alternative option: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Aside from the obvious disadvantages of a non-anoynmous web I also don't even think it will work. How do you deal with identification and…

comment by reginald78 · 2025-03-26 · in AI bots are destroying Open Access

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Anubis

story by Shank · 2025-03-25 · 1 comment

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Proof-of-work against AI scraping: Anubis (selfhosted scraper defense software)

story by opengears · 2025-03-22 · 1 comment

Noted! I filed a bug: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/38 All of this is placeholder wording, layouts, CSS, and more. It'll be fixed in time. This is teething pain that I will get through.

comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

…interesting for combatting this problem, a (non-crypto) proof-of-work challenge for new visitors https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Looks like the GNOME Gitlab instance implements it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME

comment by parliament32 · 2025-03-20 · in I fear for the unauthenticated web

…(for humans) what we're supposed to do and what is happening when met by that page? Will do! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/25

comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Hi! I do this! See https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis for more info!

comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

…surreal to see my project in the preview image like this. That's wild! If you want to try it: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis . So far I've noticed that it seems to actually work. I just deployed it to xeiaso.net as a way to see how it…

comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

That's what I've been doing! It works shockingly well. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

You're likely thinking of Anubis from Techaro: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

comment by gmemstr · 2025-03-18 · in Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

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Anubis: Weighs the soul of HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers

story by pabs3 · 2025-03-18 · 0 comments