On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM AntiCompositeNumber <a...@anticomposite.net> wrote: > > https://anubis.techaro.lol/ is currently being deployed by a number of other > sites, small and large, from the Arch Wiki to UNESCO. It is MIT licensed, > sits between a front proxy and the appserver, and uses a proof-of-work > CAPTCHA to prevent bots. It is a blunt hammer, but it's probably better than > IP blocking. There is some ability to allow acceptable bots: > https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/policies/ > > https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away is a similar project with more > configuration available, but I haven't heard as many folks deploying it. > > I don't like advocating for these masures. > I'm not sure there are any other reasonable options for resource-limited > projects.
Anubis is on my list of potential tricks to try. I agree that proof of work proxies are not an ideal solution, but maybe they are slightly less terrible than outright blocks on 12% of the internet as I have done today. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
