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All the other tools don't actually work. What I mean is that they block far, far, more than they intend to. Anubis actually works on every weird and niche browser I've tried. Which is to say, it lets actual human people through even if they aren't using Chrome.

CloudFlare doesn't do that. Cloudflare's false positive rate is extremely high, as are the others. Mostly because they all depend on bleeding edge JS and browser functions (CORS, etc) for fingerprinting functionality.

Cloudflare is for for-profit and other situations where you don't care if you block poor people because they can't give you money anyway. Anubis is for if you want everyone to be able to access your website.



I doubt it works with dillo or lynx.


if it doens't work yet, you can suggest a patch


The issue is lack of javacript support from these browsers.


I went to the Anubis authors blog last night and apparently the new versions of Anubis now use bleeding edge JS just like Cloudflare does. So now they both suck. Oh well. Good run for a couple months.




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