• [$] Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Jul 11 06:40:08 2025

    Few, if any, web sites or web-based services have gone unscathed by
    the locust-like hordes of AI crawlers looking to consume (and then
    re-consume) all of the world's content. The Anubis project is designed to provide a first line of defense that blocks mindless bots-while
    granting real users access to sites without too much hassle. Anubis is
    a young project, not even a year old. However, its development is
    moving quickly, and the project seems to be enjoying rapid
    adoption. The most recent release of Anubis, version
    1.20.0, includes a feature that many users have been interested in
    since the project launched: support for challenging clients without
    requiring users to have JavaScript turned on.

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