wiki: Deploy Anubis in front of wiki to stop AI crawlers#504
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wiki: Deploy Anubis in front of wiki to stop AI crawlers#504
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Replace the Caddy-based rate limiting of AI crawlers with an instance of Anubis which will force clients to perform a proof-of-work challenge accessible only to browser-based clients. This should hopefully prevent AI bots from giving the wiki the hug of while permitting well-behaved search engine and wayback machine crawlers to pass. Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <hello@patrickod.com>
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We will probably want to migrate this to something a little more sophisticated as UA strings are easy to fake. For example googlebot config.
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I'd love to see this given a try! |
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Replace the Caddy rate limiting of AI crawlers with an instance of Anubis which will force clients to perform a proof-of-work challenge accessible only to browser-based clients.
This should hopefully prevent AI bots from giving the wiki the hug of death while permitting well-behaved search engine and wayback machine crawlers to pass.
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty hello@patrickod.com