• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      Anubis - an anti-scraping plugin for websites. I believe one of its claims to fame is placing LLM crawlers into “tar pits” (preventing them from eating website resources)

      It does show up whenever you load into the site though, so I guess that makes their mascot stick in everyone’s head.

      • Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip
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        6 hours ago

        Thanks for explaining! ☺️ I’d seen this before I think when going to the gnome repos and was curious what it was