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To those running AI agents: Anubis is adding a honeypot for AI agents. It requests for PII, then bans the IP. github.com/TecharoHQ/an... Don't use HTML/markdown for browsing! Malicious actors exploit the differences in how humans and AI browse. Use browser + vision directly.

Ferd

@blotz.dev

30 Aug

How is it malicious to bad someone from accessing your content?

The Flaky Wanderer

@flakywanderer.bsky.social

30 Aug

The malicious part is asking for information under false pretenses before doing so

Ferd

@blotz.dev

30 Aug

What's the false pretenses? Its a software for blocking scrapers, blocking scrapers?

The Flaky Wanderer

@flakywanderer.bsky.social

30 Aug

The false pretenses is claiming that the information can be provided for access, when in fact the system already decided it would never do such a thing by the time it makes that claim

Ferd

@blotz.dev

30 Aug

Mfw people lie on the internet. Isn't that as bad as scraping a website with agents that doesn't want to be scraped?

Ferd

@blotz.dev

30 Aug

Arnt you accessing the website under false pretenses

Ferd

@blotz.dev

That's it? And it was reverted too? People are mad about this?? I hate this new web. You should be mad that this even works. Imagine this was actually malicious and asked for something genuinely harmful

github.comrevert(lib): remove AI agent honeypot method by Xe · Pull Request #1913 · TecharoHQ/anubisReverts #1895. The AI agent honeypot registration endpoint, its policy bot rule, the footer registration block, and the associated docs page are removed. This was a mistake and I apologise. Reverts...

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