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These are the kind of reactions I get when I recommend Anubis to deal with bots at work, what alternatives are there? (media.piefed.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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At work I was asked by a different team how we can deal with bots, because someone in my team remembered that I knew how to do it.

I reluctantly suggested Anubis because I got shit for it last time, This is the URL https://anubis.techaro.lol/

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.

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The mascot being a ~10 year old "cutsie" anime cat girl is weird in a work setting.
I will never put myself in a situation again where I have to explain that it's not weird to anyone again, same for that URL.

What is a professional looking open-source alternative to Anubis?

Edit: No I can't just send my colleges here https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper The issue is they find the Mascot and domain weird, they will still run into both.

My Goal: Recommend a Open-Source bot protection tool

The Issue: When I send my coworkers to https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper they find the mascot and URL weird.

Result: They don't see Anubis as a serious tool and turn away from it

What is a professional looking open-source alternative to Anubis?

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[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I agree that if you're a business you should probably just pay so you can change the image.

I've been meaning to set up something like https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ though, seems interesting.

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[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago

Realistically your best option is a CDN with some layer of bot detection and blocking. Cloudflare is of course the most popular choice, https://bunny.net/ might also work but I haven’t tried their advanced Shield level so not sure how good it is.

Some commercial advanced firewall / WAF might also be an option. Seems most of them has Bot mitigation features, but I haven’t tried their never personally tried anything like that.

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I get it that you want to be a worker with a good idea, but after that reaction, I would not give a fuck anymore about what this company needs.

I worked at 'company' once that felt bad because it used Blender, not an expensive 3D software, so they bought 3DsMax license only for it to lie down and being unused, but the boss ego was a bit less scratched by using Free stuff. Like those people are fucked up.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

just donate to them and you can brand it however you want; but honestly if people think a tool that little makes your site better is silly then they shouldn't be in it.

either that or just set up your fail2ban and modsec rules yourself in conjuntion with crs ruleset.

[–] aldhissla@piefed.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your business deserves to suffer the consequences of being stuck in a juvenile mindset. Simple as. I know it's not helpful, but there's no helping your business.

I hope Ms Evelyn W. is otherwise contributing more to the company than the costs she helps cause in technology deficit. But somehow I doubt it.

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[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mods, I'm gonna argue rule 3 here. This is not related to self-hosting rather enterprise level sysadmin services and does not belong.

[–] curbstickle_lw@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

There is no differentiation around "who" in self-hosting. I would even say it should be encouraged to have companies support open-source tools like Anubis, especially financially.

If you want to start a meta discussion about it go for it, but I won't remove this discussion just because a business is involved. Especially considering many of us self-host for our own personal businesses as well, it would seem pretty arbitrary to me.

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A shitload of comments and nobody suggests Alt captcha?

Is this more or less what you're looking for? MIT license, privacy-first anti-bot. Says free, self hostable, open source, too.

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