Selfhosted

they see a mascot that dont like and then dont use that software because that? how unprofessional

OP, anubis is not a catgirl. She is a jackalgirl.

Life is too short to be all serious all the time, love Anubis logo!

Idk my last workplace was full of nerds who appreciated the pedigree of anubus' creator. We used it to protect our production sites without even changing the branding. If I were in your place I would find it very hard to resist bringing up the amount of furries in tech.

If this is for work you probably should bring in a professional. There are enterprise solutions for this.

This is selfhosted after all

I was asked by a different team how we can deal with bots

So they are not competent enough to do it on their own, but your solution gets laughed at? Why help them at all?

Let them allocate the budget for a "big boy" brand application firewall like F5 of paloalto...

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

I dont have a solution but I get it. My company ended up using slack over discord because of the same issue. Discord is unprofessional, the brand name and gamer logo were a nonstarter and that ended the discussion without looking at the software features.

Step 1: buy a Professional Domain like antibot-enterprise-pro.com

Step 2: CNAME it to techaro.lol

Step 3: Profit!!

Optionally just sell them the rebranded Anubis with a different name for 500 a month, pay 50 to techaro, rest of it to a queer friendly charity.

I understand you are just looking for an easy open source project that solves your issue, but it seems fairly obvious to me that your real issue here is that you are not willing to push for your teammates to accept that it is a valid service even if branded a bit oddly.

You should go for the $50 professional tier and get your team to accept that as valid by respectfully asserting yourself instead of wetnoodling and trying to get a different project that requires less assertiveness on your part.

Good luck with your team.

This is the 2nd and last time I will ever recommend Anubis anywhere at work to deal with bots because of how unprofessional, un-serious and weird others perceive it.

tell them its professional enough for kernel.org, qemu.org, the freedesktop gitlab server and several other serious software projects.

but I understand it. I just find tye priorities funny.

what kind of company is this? do you believe your work benefits the public? if yes, have a look at gandalf from nerdvpn, but I guess they'll laugh just the same. if no, you are better off not recommending them effective bot blockers.

Why don't you just fork it, remove the logo, an set up a domain yourself?

Alternatively, you could set up a presentation that they are a white labeling service, and the reason they use that domain and mascot is to discourage corporations from using the free tier, since the free tier is meant for personal use, and that their reaction is exactly what Anubis aims for unless a corporation is willing to pay for customized service tailored to them.

That ship may have sailed by now depending on how you dealt with the situation, but that would have been the best case scenario. Advocating for something that you know is good, is also good for your career, because now, even if you do recommend something else, your reputation will still be marked by the fact you recommended Anubis and then folded without explaining well why you recommended Anubis despite the mascot. If you still can, I'd bring up the whole thing with the mascot anyway even if you move on to recommend a different service, to save your own reputation for the future, since you seem to be so focused on your perceived career.

Anyway, you can use Cloudflare. Ideologically I oppose it, but it works and is familiar with the non-tech people. There's also SilentShield, which is based in Europe and in my opinion works better than Cloudflare's protection in terms of load times.

I install gimp on my work PC. Anubis isn't weird enough.

There are alternatives like go-away, iocaine, etc.

You could also just send them a PDF or HTML file explaining how Anubis works, and refuse to send the URL or mascot until they are convinced to implement it.

Duckduckgo searching it, Botstopper, running Anubis in back and by the same author. I assume the website is theirs

"It's .lol for free or it's Cloudflare 💰💰"

But yeah, I wouldn't go fighting at all. I'd give 'em the options and let them pay if they want to.

Firstly, sorry you're having this problem and sorry the responses here have been nearly universally unhelpful and aggressive. This is a pretty perfect case study of what I don't like about the fediverse. There's a lot to like about this place but what drives me nuts is the unhinged and reality-divorced types who cannot understand something so simple as normal people thinking things are weird. Half the respondents here think you should scream at your coworkers about this and/or quit. You asked an incredibly reasonable and relatable question and mostly got shat on for it. Just wanted to say that someone sees how ridiculous it is, not everyone here is lost completely in their own (hateful) world. Sorry I don't have a solution for you.