Talk:Anubis (software)

Image transparancy

@AntiCompositeNumber I also noticed the lack of transparency in webp, do you think that is a bug that should be reported on Phabricator? PhotographyEdits (talk) 19:34, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

T283646? Seems to be the same problem, original vs. 500px. Nyakase🐈‍⬛‍ (talk • guestbook) 20:17, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Funny that @AntiCompositeNumber is already part of that thread PhotographyEdits (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

worth mentioning the FSF calling it "malware" (with very loose reasoning)?

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots 130.44.136.251 (talk) 11:36, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

No, unless there is a secondary source for it. PhotographyEdits (talk) 14:37, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

The Free Software Foundation often uses the term 'malware' to refer to proprietary software that contains features at the expense of their users, instead of just software that is mainly for disrupting computer systems. This definition may be limited to them and other parts of the free software movement, so there may be neutrality issues with using their opinion on this wiki. Anubis is different due to it being free software/open source, but the FSF uses the 'malware' term as it uses JavaScript features that may be used for malicious purposes, although most other people would probably not consider it malware.

Regardless, the FSF post would probably not be suitable to be a reference in this article due to it being a blog post. Xeroctic (talk) 09:02, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

The Free Software Foundation did state

"If we made our website use Anubis, we would be pressuring users into running malware."

at

https://web.archive.org/web/20251219172350/https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

But it is also shown at

https://web.archive.org/web/20251219172755/https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Anubis_captcha

at the Free Software Foundation's directory so if it was malware the Free Software Foundation provides links to malware, though maybe just to study what they call malware and not to use against anyone.

I do not know if this is for the "Criticism" part or not, or if the criticism is only one Free Software Foundation blog post with criticism about making users run this on their site and not criticism with the software itself as even the Free Software Foundation's directory has a link to it.

Other Cody (talk) 17:43, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Potential Conflict of Interest?

Techaro, the company behind Anubis ("a software to protect websites against aggressive LLMs"),

"gives you solutions. Other companies give you problems. Techaro gives you solutions to mitigate those problems. AI and Machine Learning Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to automate processes, gain insights, and drive innovation in your business."

(emphasis mine)

as per their web site: https: //techaro.lol/solutions

There are persistent allegations of antivirus software companies pushing viruses in order to promote their software... Why should "AI and Machine Learning" companies not have a nice second leg to stand on, too... even if it is open source. Someone has to provide the customer service... and on top of that, even if the algorithm is open source, the *data* being processed doesn't have to be. It doesn't require a lot of imagination to see how providing the "right" data could benefit cryptomining for example, or even possibly LLMs themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:A62:629:F701:2538:20B3:B269:5226 (talk) 08:36, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

I also noticed this in the Techaro website. Can't believe they're doing that. 2601:646:9901:F500:E422:4AEF:C9D0:4858 (talk) 22:48, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Sure, but until this is featured in independent WP:RS we cannot add this information to the article. PhotographyEdits (talk) 16:58, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I haven't seen any source cover this at all. Hopefully eventually it'll make it. 2601:646:9981:7000:428B:EDAB:F0C5:A0F4 (talk) 01:38, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Infobox screenshot

The old and new screenshots, respectively

In and , Jordan the Namco Gamer changed the infobox screenshot. The new one is considerably padded, so I can't read it on my computer without expanding the image. It's also taken on the Anubis site, which uses a different challenge than the one described in § Design (I tested the websites under § Adoption and they either stopped using Anubis or triggered the original challenge).

Personally I prefer the original image as it's more accessible and shows Anubis in the described configuration. _🐾Nyakase^🐾 (talk) 01:57, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Do Not Use Fictitious Names as Disguises

The Anubis software touches thousands of computers and has even been accused of being malware. If the author of the software wants to hide, then their name should be removed. Just list Techaro and remove the personal name. Otherwise, like other people listed on Wikipedia, they should show their legal name or at least clarify the name used is an alias. If Wikipedia holds this as the standard for people like Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop) or Bono (Paul Hewson), then it should apply to Xe too. ~2026-36011-49 (talk) 17:58, 20 June 2026 (UTC)