I much prefer to see Anubis rather than some bullshit captcha with a grid of AI generated slop that requires 30 clicks to pass.
You mean 30 clicks before it tells you to “please try again” for no reason.
“Prove that you’re human by solving these machine-generated puzzles that machines can solve to give us more data to train our machines, while we run a simple script in the background to verify that you’re human based on your browser’s metadata.”
I had a captcha a few days ago that was something like “click on all the pictures that go with this” with a picture of a saucepan and the grid was food items and other things.
I pointed my phone at it and asked Gemini and almost instantly it said “the potato in the top left and the carrots look the middle of the bottom row”.
While I despise the captchas from a human perspective, the fact that an LLM can solve the challenge isn’t a deal breaker. It doesn’t need to be impossible for a non-human to solve, it just has to be too expensive.
It does certainly shift the equation to stuff like proof of work since a computer can solve it anyway, might as well not annoy the human.
To keep training the captcha solving AI of course
Oh is the person riding the bicycle part of the bicycle this time? What do you want, the corner of the pedal that is just barely in the box, or the out of focus blur in the background that might be a bicycle or it might be a bear. It’s hard to tell.
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I’ve read somewhere the main dev has comissioned an artist to redo the Anubis mascot.
funner fact: anubis itself is slop
That one was, but the current one is not
The repo credits a real artist for the anubis image
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/web/static/img/ATTRIBUTIONS.txt
I have a self bound rule to never do the multi-tile single image ones. Fuck those so much, they’re always wrong. I will refresh for as long as it takes to get a grid of smaller images that may also be hard but I at least have some better grasp over.
Anubis is open source, self-hosted, doesn’t block me just because I use a VPN and the later versions work even with JavaScript disabled!
Fuck Cloudflare, long live Anubis!
How exactly is a proof of work engine suppose to run, without any JS work?
Read the docs.
Cloudflare is great compared to Recaptcha.
Anubis is the best by far.
I don’t mind the second it takes. Better than the service going down because of AI bots.
Actually the opposite for me - I love to see her for a second, brightens the day a bit, fights the evil megacorps.
-AAAnubis-chan
Or cloudflare. Fuck cloudflare.
Can take a fair bit longer on low end devices. Don’t have an issue with it beyond that
I love how toxic she is to corporate professionalism.
Its also perfect marketing, the software is free with the mascot hardcoded in. The official way to change it is to contribute to get an enterprise version.
I love how toxic she is to corporate professionalism.
in what way?
It’s just a silly anime girl showing up on first page load. If you’re deathly afraid of seeming unprofessional, that’s gonna do your head in…
Spot on. There were some complaints recently made by people being afraid to be seen as a furry because she has ears and a tail. It’s hilarious
Oh man. Those people are so gd cringe it IS hilarious.
Not that it matters, but it’s not anime style, it’s a “western” style cartoon character. Compare it to e.g. the original Disney princesses, the proportions and style look like that, not like anime characters.
tbf it is clearly inspired by anime tho. those eyes, the skirt and the cat ears are pretty typical anime stuff
Hmm, well, thanks for throwing that tidbit in either way. I’m certainly not deep into that whole artform, so probably just saw big eyes + cat ears and that was the end of my thought process. 🫠
The code is MIT licensed, what’s preventing you from just removing the logo/changing it with something else…
Nothing but them respectfully asking not to do this, pointing out that they will help you do it if you pay a contribution.
Take this over cloudflare any day of the week
Her face is the response to years of enshittification; without her, the modern browsing experience would suck much harder. Glory to Anubis!
I love her!!
Much better than cludflare and Google recapha
Thank god we have anubis
Which god? Anubis.
Im a narcissist. Im god
Who is she supposed to be?
Anubis - an anti-scraping plugin for websites. I believe one of its claims to fame is placing LLM crawlers into “tar pits” (preventing them from eating website resources)
It does show up whenever you load into the site though, so I guess that makes their mascot stick in everyone’s head.
Thanks for explaining! ☺️ I’d seen this before I think when going to the gnome repos and was curious what it was
No idea, never seen her before.
+1 Anubis, cloudflare can suck mai balls
I’m on discuss.tchncs.de right now and its web UI lags badly probably due to a lot of bot scaping.
If we had Anubis i guess that could be avoided.
Long live the Canadian anime catgirl!
Jackal girl.
Anubis weighs the soul of your connection.
Cat? I thought it was a dog, because Anubis(The ancient Egyptian deity) has a dog head.
Looks way better than half the ads I normally see.
What am I missing to understand this? What is Anubis?
Beloved anti scraping/ddos tool
