this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This is exactly what we need to do. You'd think that a FOSS WAF exists out there somewhere that can do this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

There is. That screenshot you see in the article is a picture of a brand new one, Anubis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Yeah I realised that after posting. I think we need a better one to deal with the cases of letting legitimate users in easier though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

It kind of sucks but it is the best we have for the moment