points by account42 3 days ago | 0 comments
It's a DRM middleware used to harass users of customized and privacy respecting browsers which is popular with many smaller websites.
[–] Aldqueath 3 days ago
[–] jacquesm 3 days ago
Google too. 'We are detecting unusual traffic from your address'. I don't know how often I've seen this and there isn't a byte that goes in or out on this connection without monitoring so if it really would be 'unusual' I would hope I would be on it before Google told me, especially not from a session that's been active for days or weeks.
[–] account42 3 days ago
If you need to compare the project to Google and Cloudflare in order to look less bad that's not exactly a good sign.
[–] andrepd 3 days ago
Come on... This thread has people saying their small website went from 1k requests a day to 100 requests per second. What would you have them do to mitigate this, I wonder? I would rather not have to have an anime girl picture stalling the website load for 1s, but I'd rather have the anime girl and see the website than no anime girl and no website.
[–] barbafant 3 days ago
Is that the one that shows an anime figure holding a magnifyig glass while it is checking your browser?
[–] notafox 2 days ago
You can remove the figure - here's uBlock Origin filter to block it from loading:
! Title: Hide Anubis Image
*/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image
[–] VorpalWay 3 days ago
Yes, and at least in the past it did proof of work to verify that it wasn't a bot. Though apparently that is no longer effective against all bots.
[–] tempfile 3 days ago
Please substantiate this claim. What do you think makes it DRM? What kind of browser are you using that results in "harassment"? I use tor browser and other oddball firefox forks all the time, Anubis never gave me any trouble. I think it just requires you to compute some hashes.
[–] kasey_junk 3 days ago
It’s a software tool that specifically exists to allow content creators to enforce rules about how their content is used. It meets the dictionary definition of DRM.
It’s DRM that I think of as silly larping that doesn’t really bother me, but it’s clearly drm.
[–] tempfile 3 days ago
> It’s a software tool that specifically exists to allow content creators to enforce rules about how their content is used.
This is what I would like substantiated. I can go to a site behind Anubis, download the content on it, and do whatever I want with it. It doesn't do any kind of attestation of hardware or software. So - what makes it DRM?
[–] philipwhiuk 3 days ago
This is such a wild re-imagining of 'preventing uncountable AI crawlers perform DoS attacks on a whim to make line go up'
In comparison I get cloudflare recaptcha on every site that uses it, sometimes multiple times per session and sometimes not even letting me pass at all due to "error".
And if the website uses Google recaptcha then I close the tab because I know it will just end up in endless recaptcha hell.