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Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and (mastodon.social)
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Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/

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[-] nixCraft@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

We need mod_Anubis directly added to Nginx or Apache with configuration options like allowing or blocking specific URLs, IPs, CIDRs, or even data center ranges like AWS. additionally, customization for traps and stuff like that. Freeloader AI companies abuse open-source projects, small businesses, blogs, forums, and artists without giving back to communities or individuals. They are making billions while people are left with server bandwidth bills.

[-] abnv@fantastic.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social There exists https://github.com/simon987/ngx_http_js_challenge_module, a mod for Nginx that works similar to Anubis.

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