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by foresto 306 days ago
Any news on the no-script feature?

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.
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xena 306 days ago
Admins need to enable the meta refresh challenge: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng...

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.

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jraph 306 days ago
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.

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xena 306 days ago
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.
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jraph 306 days ago
Interesting. I suppose I need to try this if I ever happen to build something to which it could apply. Thanks for the inspiration.

A third of a junior salary is not much but I guess it could help with at least turning a full time position into part time.

> I remember being told that monetization model as a joke and figured this would be one way to test it

Ah ah. Awesome.

It has happened to me once or twice that I jokingly share an idea, and it gets picked up seriously (in a professional setting). "But it was a joke! Too late. Oh no." - I guess it's not too bad in the end and shouldn't be fighted too hard. I guess I'll just make sure that if the idea is horrible, I don't make the joke if I think people around could seriously pick it up.

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