Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.
This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:
They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.
Let me know if you have any trouble!
FWIW I think cloudflare and similar do the full screen thing too, they just render a blank page though so it just feels like more load time.
I don't run Anubis on my stuff currently, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't have a similar feature