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old.lemmy.today is now behind Anubis for bot protection (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 day ago by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/lemmytoday@lemmy.today
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Hi guys,

We are now trying out Anubis in front of https://old.lemmy.today/ to see if we can block many of the bots scraping lemmy content.

You will notice an image saying Anubis is checking if you are a bot, and then things should work normally after that.

There are many millions of ips trying to scrape lemmy content so blocking on ip level is difficult. Hopefully this improves the situation somewhat. :)

Thanks to @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for sharing info about Anubis!

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It sits between your web browser and old.lemmy.today and detects if you are a bot. If you are, your request doesn't pass through Anubis. It's Gandalf saying "you shall not pass".

So it will hopefully cut down on bots scraping the instance. Or it will piss them off even more. :)