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old.lemmy.today is now behind Anubis for bot protection (edit: not anymore) (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago by 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!

Edit: It was a lot better to just turn off public access of posts on old.lemmy.today, so we are actually not using Anunis anymore. Just log in to old.lemmy.today and things will work as normal.

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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Wonder what it means for Lemmy clients if this practice will be expanded to the main URL.

Will mobile apps support it? Or is only old.lemmy.today planned to be protected?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Pretty sure the API should be exempt, as well as user agents that don't impersonate browsers. So that should be fine, the only problem is that you need JavaScript to get through the challenge when using a browser (which is a bit unfortunate, as old.lemmy.today doesn't otherwise require JS).

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah the API should be exempt. Will look into this a bit more in the coming days but wanted to see how well Anubis works on old.lemmy.today first for a while. We probably end up using it on lemmy.today as well. Just didnt want to make a big bang change everywhere on day 1. :)

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