The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
08-07-2025 02:10 via news.slashdot.org

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a "program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies," has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times, and is being used by notable organizations including GNOME, the popular open-source desktop environment for L
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