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Duh. The author of Anubis really should advertise it as a DDoS guard, not an AI guard. Otherwise, xe is just misleading people, while being unnecessarily discriminatory against robots (robotkin) and cyborgs (those using AI agents as an extension of their selves).

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It's not really a DDoS guard though. If someone wants to ddos a server, anubis isn't going to be able to stop the traffic before it gets to the server.

It does help from accidental ddos or just rude scrapers that assume everyone has unlimited bandwidth and money.

We’ve evolved. The only thing that pays attention to the OSI model is DDoS which can hit you on every layer. And against the application layer attacks Anubis and friends are effective.

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