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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[–] 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (15 children)

the insane smugness and inability to comprehend that money isnt everything for the creator is astounding "Waaahhh Anubis isn't gonna get my money cus they chose to look UNPROFESSIONAL" this is why everyone hates corpo guys

edit: I forgot to add the comments elsewhere downright accusing the creator of being a pedo for having an anime furry mascot yeah you guys arent subtle at all

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    oh they do want all the shit anubis and other foss projects offers which is why they keep trying to browbeat and bully them whenever they arent soulless slop, see the comment thread elsewhere in this post where a bunch of fucks keep jerking off to their idea of replacing the catgirl with a grey square or something so that muh MaRkEt can get over itself and take over properly compensate the project

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

    They want to criticize the mascot and, what, replace it with some kinda glyphic anus logo like all the "professional" companies with stupid silicon valley-approved names? LOL what high-ground amirite? 😂

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

    Irony of ironies: the new logo looks like a glyphic anus.

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

    Uh oh, signs of life and whimsy! Close the iris!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    You can just do that yourself. Take the logo off.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    thats the thing they are explicitly making a brandless soulless alternative you can change the branding for yet there's still complaints and accusations for how the og software looks

    which is what gives me the feeling these aren't real concerns and is just a way to bully people working for free, if not some sort of astroturf conspiracy by businessmen who want anti-ai tools out of the way

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

    I've been explicitly told not to use any open source for a project. I don't even know what language I'd write it in. We ended up not even quoting for it in the end.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    If they pay for something they can hold someone accountable. Not a good excuse, but i don't know any other reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    This is it.

    It's about risk management. If you don't have a vendor to provide measured performance criteria, you have no idea how it will perform.

    Businesses are data-centric. Without that data, a product effectively doesn't exist.

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