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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by zahlman on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:38PM (#44966178)
> Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it. Anubis only serves you the challenge if you have that.

Won't that break many other things? My understanding was that basically everyone's user-agent string nowadays is packed with a full suite of standard lies.

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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by Arnavion on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:42PM (#44966215)
It doesn't break the two kernel.org domains that the article is about, nor any of the others I use. At least not in a way that I noticed.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by throwawayffffas on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:01PM (#44966990)
In 2025 I think most of the web has moved on from checking user strings. Your bank might still do it but they won't be running Anubis.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by account42 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:09AM (#44971306)
The web as a whole definitely has not moved on from that.
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Re:Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux ke... by Aachen on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:17AM (#44971812)
Nope, they're on cloudflare so that all my banking traffic can be intercepted by a foreign company I have no relation to. The web is really headed in a great direction :)
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