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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 day ago

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

www.404media.co

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 day ago
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Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
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    There’s an option using some very new HTML tag, but it’s not the default.

    https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh

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      Interesting. Judging by that option’s name, it seems to refer to use of the HTML <meta> tag to refresh a page.

      https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/http-equiv

      Neither this tag nor using it for refresh is new at all. I don’t think I’ve seen it used to detect bots, though. I wonder what Anubis is doing here.

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