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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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[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Pay for the unbranded version, or set it up and replace the image with whatever you want. It's open source and is trivial just to replace the image. I see it with different images all the time on other sites. Name and other branding is a little more work to replace, but can be done and that's what the paid version provides.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If you send the link with references of big party users, and under the premise that you can make it look as professionell as you need it to be, and you still get the „lol“s for a lol-TLD: show them the finger and let them drown in their traffic.

They were not interested in your opinion from the get-go.

Edit: anubis even offers a commercial, unbranded version.

Edit 2: Maybe the confrontation isn't as harsh and the coworker sees a .lol-domain for the first time and is honestly surprised. We don't know history and tone.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of FOSS solutions have funny names, mascots, etc. I'm surprised if IT/tech workers aren't used to it. Just politely tell them, yes, it has slightly silly branding, but look past it and it's software that does what you want.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

As others said, the logo thing is solvable, for the domain you can explain that it's cheaper than com or net.

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[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

is crowdsec no longer the gold standard? I've been sself hosting since ... forever and I've never heard of anubis, but I've seen it in the wild.

Suggesting a self hosted alternative in an enterprise environment is a no-no (unless you're in a startup)

Any self respecting enterprise level business will require warranty and support which self hosted solutions do not offer. Good luck trying to get an "SLA" out of Anubis support, if it even exists.

Sounds to me like you need a WAF (if you want to self host it for some reason) there are other enterprise level services that specialize in this. Zscaler comes to mind, but there are dozens.

Free plug for my company because they help pay the bills.

https://www.imperva.com/products/web-application-firewall-waf/

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I wrote a crowdsec bouncer that outputs an anubis config. They work together well.

Anubis doesn't try to do any detection or blocking by itself.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A WAF is a completely different thing than Anubis. ~~ And it also has an enterprise version with support. ~~ Edit: misremembered that, there's a commercial version but IDK about support

Kinda pretty opinionated reply for not knowing what OP is about

[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It sucks that everyone has decided that the nuclear option was the only way, you don't realize it till you try to setup a HA dashboard on a pi and get stuck loading a website for 5 minutes

[–] gibandaley@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Mojeek.com uses https://altcha.org/

Might be worth a look.

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