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0 pointsjtbayly10mo ago0 comments

Sadly including on my site that kept getting overwhelmed by bots this year. I didn’t know what else to do.

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Have you tried anubis?

Anubis is affective against certain kinds of bots and abuse, but wouldn't be that affective against large scale DDoS attacks. And it does have a negative impact on usability, as users have to wait for the browser to do the proof of work, which may or may not be worse than cloudflare's captchas.

DoctorOW10mo ago

Anubis is a partial mitigant of DDOS attacks, since it's less resource intensive to serve the Anubis page than the origin[1].

Cloudflare's captchas are only convenient for a subset of users, I'll bet there'd be decent money in one of the competing CDNs (Fastly maybe?) including an Anubis-like captcha.

[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864108

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jtbaylyOP10mo ago

I tried to figure it out for about 5 minutes, and decided that it probably wasn’t possible on my shared hosting.

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