This week on #OpenSourceSecurity I have a chat with Xe :verified: (npub17mj…0mhx) about #Anubis, the tool that stops web AI scrapers
The scale of web scraping is way worse than I expected, and blocking things is also a lot harder than I expected
This is one of those conversations where I learned how little I know
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-01-anubis-xe/
Josh Bressers
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2026-01-05 14:29:47 UTC
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