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Free as in anime.
I’m reminded of an old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber…who works as though he’s starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can’t really turn him down, since he’s the cheapest and most qualified in the area.
That was a funny sketch.
Link for those who want it: https://youtu.be/qSqhpnRNyK4?is=JvDg0Eg-S59DTfIp
The blog post explaining it is also gold ! https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/
It’s a cat girl? I thought it was a Jackal. It’s named Anubis.
Talking about an opensource software some web developers use to verify the humanity of their traffic.
Instead of getting a captcha or a cloudflare verification, you see an anime catgirl nurse for a couple seconds while it runs a simple check on your browser metadata to filter out the majority of bot traffic
I looked it up she’s definitely a dog / Jackal girl
I don’t think the people hating on it are going to look into it in that much detail…
I mean it’s MIT licensed which means you can just remove the character and the branding if you want. It’s kinda a dick move to do that but that’s what open source is all about.
If a commercial company does that on a website that generates revenue, then they’re huge assholes.
If some nobody does it for their static website that gets 10 hits on a good month, honestly I’m not gonna judge.
Jackal because anubis and you can actually change it fairly easy without paying the monthly $50 commercial fee, but they ask that you don’t.
They’re using weaboo branding to hostage enterprise users into funding the project lol
They’re using weaboo branding to hostage enterprise users into funding the project lol
Would you say stores are holding their merchandise hostage to get customers to fund their business?
For all the places I’ve encountered that used Anubis, I didn’t bat an eye because it fits the vibe. But then again, I am a weeb. But also the image isn’t even that egregious. I’d say it’s atypical for a cartoon character, but that might be because I swim snorkel in sewers.
I usually browse from a pretty good computer. I didnt notice Anubis at all before it was pointed out on lemmy. Its lmost instant
I heard of Anubis before a few times around posts surrounding Cloudflare’s (CF) efforts around web scrapers previously. Truth be told, I hardly see the Anubis screen pop up. If the site or service is big enough, it would be using CF. If it’s small enough or niche, in my mind, it shouldn’t have that problem and doesn’t need it. I can see big enough niche service and sites getting hit though, and can’t pay for CF so they use Anubis. And sometimes those are anime related sites, though that’s how I found it in the wild. I think catbox.moe is using anubis, and I think that’s where I sometimes encounter it.
There are More mainstream sites using it. Like codeberg
But yeah mostly those who won’t use cloudflare for ideological reasons
Thanks for telling me. I made a poor assumption.
You what now
I assume “swimming snorkel in sewers” is a self deprecating way of describing exactly how “weeb” they are.
Why would you remove the catgirl branding though?
It does look pretty unprofessional tbh
professional
who cares! ‘Professionalism’ has made the internet worse.
Sure but on the other hand it’s nice to have money in order not to starve.
you can have many money with no professionalism, they are not bound to one another
If you’re running a business, whether you need professionalism really depends on what you’re doing.
Medical software? Anything aimed at governments as your customers? Billing? Be professional.
Literally a thing aimed at software engineers? Book publisher? Most types of online stores? You can be quirky
The things that need professionalism seem like things that could pay for the non-branded version, though?
I’d rather not see it. Us non-weebs are force fed anime and related shit to a point of anger. It’s extremely annoying and too much get through even with filters in place. Weebs don’t understand how bad it is, and how not just being uninterested but actual disliking it makes the internet a shitty place to be.
weebs built modern tools,. we should respect their culture rather than erase it…
Half joking,
Would you rather be forcefed captcha and cloudflare?
Us non-weebs are force fed anime and related shit to a point of anger.
Now imagine how it feels to not care about sports or religion
I’m getting there with the cult of vroom vroom. Like gas isn’t expensive enough they burn it for fun, and our planet is literally cooking.
but sports & religion 100%
Add this to ublock to remove it. I am not a fan of weeb or furry shit so I figured this one out pretty quick. There’s no point in the logo even existing.
*/anubis/static/img/*.webp*
They basically use the WinRar approach adapted to Open Source. Anubis is MIT licensed, so there’s nothing stopping anyone from replacing the branding themselves.
what?! I have to code?! Or worse, pay someone to do so!
Me mad! me want free stuff, reliable, and quick update when I ask a feature to the person I’m not paying !
If I were an immoral corpo that has problems with cat girls I would just remove the cat girl without paying. Anubis is MIT license, they can’t even sue the immoral corpos.
They are explicitly fine with that option, but would prefer you to sponsor the project to keep it being devloped. If you do, they have a commercial version that in includes easy branding changes.
