[Duralias]

It has simply been normalized and for a lot of smaller scale sites, that this was first made for, being a little less professional isn't a problem.

But for situations where a company simply won't use Anubis because of its branding then they do sell a unbranded version.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

[strogonoff]

What an ingenious approach for a sustainable OSS project: serve the free version with playful art that you enjoy and that expresses your individuality, but which some people are bound to find triggering/improper; sell a bland lifeless corporate edition to those people.

[Krssst]

> some others would find triggering/improper

I guess the main point is branding clash if you're a large company website (most companies care a lot about how their brand is shown, if they care about spacing/padding around their logo they also care about what pictures are shown when joining), hopefully nobody is triggered by this kind of art. (though resentment could build up if actual humans get frequently unexpectedly rejected as bots by this system, not sure if this actually happens however, didn't ever for me at least)

The approach they took here looks very reasonable from that standpoint indeed.

[miohtama]

Triggered people should buy their software from Microsoft

[bakugo]

Is there anything stopping anyone from just making a fork and removing it manually?

[xena]

It's MIT licensed software. You can do whatever you want as long as you comply with the terms of the license. I can also choose to allocate my time wherever I want.