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81 points ananddtyagi | 8 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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zb3 ◴[28 Aug 25 20:19 UTC] No.45056595[source]▶
Seems like Cloudflare wants to regulate the internet.. they should not have that power.
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kylehotchkiss ◴[28 Aug 25 20:40 UTC] No.45056800[source]▶
Disagree. Not everybody wants their sites scraped and their content used to train a model that they'll never see a penny from. Cloudflare is the only party who wants to build a system where both the models and individual sites have their interests respected.
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ATechGuy ◴[28 Aug 25 20:51 UTC] No.45056894[source]▶
Are you sure that CF can stop AI bots?
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1. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[28 Aug 25 20:54 UTC] No.45056932[source]▶
Do you have a better alternative?
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2. ATechGuy ◴[28 Aug 25 21:06 UTC] No.45057034[source]▶
Have you looked into open-source alternatives? I'm assuming that it's a pressing problem for you, and you have already explored alternatives.
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3. tick_tock_tick ◴[28 Aug 25 21:25 UTC] No.45057212[source]▶
I have, sadly they are basically worthless and often worse then worthless as they negatively impact the site.
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4. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[28 Aug 25 21:56 UTC] No.45057498[source]▶
https://anubis.techaro.lol/ ?
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5. ATechGuy ◴[28 Aug 25 22:26 UTC] No.45057747{3}[source]▶
Interesting. Care to list them here so that we all can learn.
6. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[28 Aug 25 23:32 UTC] No.45058209[source]▶
Your browser is configured to disable cookies. Anubis requires cookies for the legitimate interest of making sure you are a valid client. Please enable cookies for this domain.

Thing is, my browser isn’t configured that way. So works well, I guess.

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7. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[29 Aug 25 00:00 UTC] No.45058396{3}[source]▶
The target was better than cloudflare, which also demands cookies but with more tracking. This is still better.
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8. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[29 Aug 25 02:58 UTC] No.45059642{4}[source]▶
I have not disabled cookies. Cloudflare works fine. Users being able to access a website is a pretty important metric when considering which is ‘better’.