Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone’s favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.

This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:

They’d increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

  • Shadow@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    • red = obvious bots
    • blue = bots and users hitting the first anubis page (ie, it’s 99.9% bots)
    • green = users.
    • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It’ll be nice to compare the next week’s network traffic to the last one’s and (presumably) see the spikes disappear.

      • Shadow@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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        5 months ago

        There’s definitely a noticeable drop.

        I’m surprised our backend traffic so flat, but I’m assuming it’s mostly federation

    • America@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I don’t go to this school, but I’m gonna check whether I’m caught in your new net!

      Edit: wew, I’m not a bot!

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Contrary to what my teachers tried to teach me, I am a user, mean, and req’d.

      Take that, Mister Ecker!