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.
(Not so) fun fact: The Anubis image is itself AI slop
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/commit/3e9a93f629e9c5a69bd7fcd6613d27ce9f5231f9
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.
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
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?
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh/
Apparently it just tells your browser to refresh after x seconds.
That’s just protection by obscurity then. Any targeted attack could do that challenge at zero cost.
Seems utterly pointless though…
With the proof of work approach, at least it’s demanding the client consume some resources, though the ‘right’ amount is a tricky question, either it’s so trivial as to hardly matter to the scrapers, or it’s hard enough to put a dent in the scrapers’ build, but human operated low end devices are royally screwed…
Here the crawler simply schedules a resumption and moves on to other work. The crawler doesn’t need it right now and it’s free for it to wait.
Which doesn’t work with some browsers, but it’s acceptable, I guess
Read the docs.
Cloudflare is great compared to Recaptcha.
Anubis is the best by far.
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.
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
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.
Thank god we have anubis
Which god? Anubis.
Im a narcissist. Im god
Still better than this
Both have different purposes.
The Anubis challenge could be easily and cheapely solved by any JavaScript engine. It only becomes expensive for a massive number of petitions.
If for instance you would want to register a few thousand emails in a forum anubis is not going to stop anyone.
In fact I’m sceptical about really having an impact. As even when the challenge goes up in difficulty is not that expensive compared with all other cost related to these kinds of attacks or massive scrapes.
My suspicion is that most websites using Anubis see a positive impact because most crawlers and probers doesn’t take into account Anubis, so they don’t even attach a way to solve the challenge and they directly go into the “rejected by anubis” bucket. But any targeted attack I suppose would pass easily, either by doing a slow attack not to up the challenge very much, or just eating the cost. Imagine an AI company that using nuclear plants for training data, the cost of solving a few million JavaScript challenges is nothing in comparison.
As a DDOS mitigation it helps, but once again it’s just a matter of eating the cost by the attacker. And the attack will still deny some service as the challenge go up and new legit users would also need to solve harder challenges.
Yeah Hcaptcha,Using AI against AI.
+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.
