What is LWN using ? [LWN.net]

What is LWN using ?

Posted Feb 13, 2026 10:45 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: What is LWN using ? by paulj
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

Could also be the network I'm on. On another network I can access.

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What is LWN using ?

Posted Feb 13, 2026 14:37 UTC (Fri) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link] (2 responses)

If we do adopt Anubis, which I think is unlikely given that we're keeping up so far using other methods, logging in to your LWN account will exempt you from it. We really want to make sure that readers can access the site — that's really what's bothersome about the bots: they were spiking the load and causing timeouts for real humans trying to access the site before we put our countermeasures in place.

What is LWN using ?

Posted Feb 13, 2026 16:57 UTC (Fri) by leromarinvit (subscriber, #56850) [Link]

The effort is much appreciated, and whatever you're doing seems to be working really well (for users at least). For what it's worth, I never noticed any delays or even timeouts, so either it was resolved *very* quickly, or it never affected a large fraction of requests. LWN has consistently remained one of the fastest-loading websites. Thank you for that!

What is LWN using ?

Posted Feb 16, 2026 12:37 UTC (Mon) by Baughn (subscriber, #124425) [Link]

I’m in the same boat. Anubis causes my iPad to overheat and crash, and that’s the device I use for reading things like LWN.

I know it’s old, but it works fine so long as I keep JavaScript disabled.