Hi hackers, TLDR; When using https://patchwork.sourceware.org or Bunsen https://builder.sourceware.org/testruns/ you might now have to enable javascript. This should not impact any scripts, just browsers (or bots pretending to be browsers). If it does cause trouble, please let us know. If this works out we might also "protect" bugzilla, gitweb, cgit, and the wikis this way.
We don't like to hav to do this, but as some of you might have noticed Sourceware has been fighting the new AI scraperbots since start of the year. We are not alone in this. https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ We have tried to isolate services more and block various ip-blocks that were abusing the servers. But that has helped only so much. Unfortunately the scraper bots are using lots of ip addresses (probably by installing "free" VPN services that use normal user connections as exit point) and pretending to be common browsers/agents. We seem to have to make access to some services depend on solving a javascript challenge. So we have installed Anubis https://anubis.techaro.lol/ in front of patchwork and bunsen. This means that if you are using a browser that identifies as Mozilla or Opera in their User-Agent you will get a brief page showing the happy anime girl that requires javascript to solve a challenge and get a cookie to get through. Scripts and search engines should get through without. Also removing Mozilla and/or Opera from your User-Agent will get you through without javascript. We want to thanks Xe Iaso who has helped us set this up and worked with use over the Easter weekend solving some of our problems/typos. Please check out if you want to be one of their patrons as thank you. https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/anubis-works/ https://xeiaso.net/patrons/ Cheers, Mark
