MarginaliaFeb 22

So I had to disable Anubis a while back because it was too much of an accessibility issue for browsers with no JS support.

Now I've deployed a query-rate based mitigation that makes you wait for a few seconds before you can proceed if the query rate is too high.

A bit annoying, but it works with any browser and will disable itself when the bots go away.

Show threadMarginalia
It's pretty clear when I flipped the switch. You can see the query rate drop drastically, and query time increase quite a lot as many clanker queries are nonsense with no or few results.
Feb 22 at 4:48pmWeb
Show threadMarginaliaFeb 22
Also a weird quirk of this weird niche I operate in is that the Dillo users are quite a large and vocal group .
Show threadBadriFeb 22
@marginalia interesting! Not a Dillo user, but I recently disabled JavaScript on my LibreWolf so I'm glad Marginalia Search works without it 😀
Show threadGabriel NFeb 23
@marginalia hmm, did the number of requests go down after removing Anubis? Because they were bouncing on it and retrying or they passed it?
Show threadMarginaliaFeb 23
@gnyman Before was with Anubis disabled on one of the UIs to let people without JS use the site.
Show threadGabriel NFeb 24
@marginalia oh, so all the bots found that one and hammered it?
Show threadMarginaliaFeb 24
@gnyman Well they probably hammered all endpoints, but got through on that one.