[rice7th]

That's anubis, an anti web crawler tool [0]

[0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

[elric]

Not a very good one, given the apparently large number of complaints by presumably legitimate users in this thread.

Seems like it doesn't like users who take privacy enhancing measures.

[rice7th]

Not really. It probably got overloaded with requests and thought that another crawler was tergeting the repository so it probably bumped up the measures.

[nozzlegear]

Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?

[xena]

To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915

Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper) will be merged into the open source repo.

[wpm]

For reasons I struggle to understand, some people are into that sort of thing.

[MiiMe19]

Because it can be

[bakugo]

Go take a look at the author's websites/socials and it should become pretty obvious why.

[snvzz]

Because she's cute; everybody loves her.

It filters out people with issues.