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I've had Anubis repeatedly fail to authorize me to access numerous open source projects, including the mesa3d gitlab, with a message looking something like "you failed".

As a legitimate open source developer and contributor to buildroot, I've had no recourse besides trying other browsers, networks, and machines, and it's triggered on several combinations.

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It sounds[1] like this was an issue with assumptions regarding header stability. Hopefully as people update their installations things will improve for us end users.

[1]: https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/release/v1.20.0/#chrome-wont...

Thank goodness. It was feeling quite dystopian being caught in a bot dragnet that blocked me from resources that are relevant and vital to my work.

Interesting, I didn't even know it had such a failure mode. Thanks for the reply, I'll sadly have to update my opinion on this project since it's apparently not a pure "everyone is equal if they can Prove the Work" system as I thought :(

I'm curious how, though, since the submitted article doesn't mention that and demonstrates curl working (which is about as low as you can go on the browser emulation front), but no time to look into it atm. Maybe it's because of an option or module that the author didn't have enabled

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