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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[–] 8 points 5 days ago (10 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days 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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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    There's a HUGE difference between the enterprise/government space than small business. I agree the line isnt commercial, but also thems (enterprise/gov) gotta be the ones to support projects.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    There are plenty of small businesses that use "enterprise" as well, and have wonderfully descriptive forms like "small to medium enterprise" and my absolute favorite - "micro enterprise", for organizations with (generally) under 10 people.

    Again, I support there being a meta discussion about this so the community can have a consensus, but we aren't doing that in this thread.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (5 children)

    Enterprise is a size of the oruchasing company, not the quality of software.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    See comment you replied to about "size" and "enterprise". At no point did I comment on quality.

    My comment was this thread is not the place for this discussion.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Sorry, then I have no idea what a 'micron enterprise' is. If its a size of company, than a 10 person corporation would be a small/medium business?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    My comment was this thread is not the place for this discussion.

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