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I just started using this myself, seems pretty great so far!

Clearly doesn't stop all AI crawlers, but a significantly large chunk of them.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

...Why? It's just telling companies they can get support + white-labeling for a fee, and asking you keep their silly little character in a tongue-and-cheek manner.
Just like they say, you can modify the code and remove for free if you really want, they're not forbidding you from doing so or anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, it seems entirely optional. It's not like manually removing the Anubis character will revoke your access to the code. However, I still do find it a bit weird that they're asking for that.

I just can't imagine most companies implementing Anubis and keeping the character or paying for the service, given that it's open source. It's just unprofessional for the first impression of a company's website being the Anubis devs' manga OC...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

It is very different from the usual flat corporate style yes, but this is just their branding. Their blog is full of anime characters like that.

And it's not like you're looking at a literal ad for their company or with their name on it. In that sense it is subtle, though a bit unusual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Subtle but unusual is a good way to describe it.

However, I would like to point out that if it is their branding, then the character appearing is an advertisement for the service. It's just not very conventional or effective advertising, but they're not making money from a vast majority of implementations, so it's not very egregious anyway.

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