Not really. It probably got overloaded with requests and thought that another crawler was tergeting the repository so it probably bumped up the measures.
Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.
Thanks for the answer. To be clear, although I'm not a huge anime person, I don't have any issue with the mascot itself. I meant my question as "why is the Anubis mascot an anime girl [instead of an Anubis]", but it seems my intention was misread over the internet.
I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappointed and frustrated, often deciding not to bother with the site after all.
It's off by default while the false positive, true positive, true negative, and false negative rates are being evaluated. This is how you make changes like that without breaking user expectations.
That's good news. That'll make me consider using Anubis.
Thanks for fighting the AI bots.
You get some hate for this anime girl image but this paid white label thing is a good idea I think. It's nice we have alternative ways of funding free software that doesn't involve ads and tracking and thank you for choosing this path.
There's a solid strategy behind it: give people what they want with a flaw that makes it unviable for corpos. Then sell the cure. I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it. The horrifying part in my book is that Anubis is a relative success story as far as open source funding goes, and it's barely a third of what a junior level software developer makes. It's maddening.
I took a look at the Github profile linked in your profile here, and it linked to a Steam profile with anime characters in the showcase section and that made your objection to the "anime girl" way more baffling.
Seems like it doesn't like users who take privacy enhancing measures.