Heads-up: MacPorts Trac now behind Anubis AI crawler protection

Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mottola at libero.it
Tue Jun 16 13:40:26 UTC 2026


Hi Clemens,

Clemens Lang wrote:
> heads-up: due to continued hammering by AI crawler bots that ignore robots.txt and identify as “human” browsers despite not being that, MacPorts Trac is now behind an instance of Anubis [1]. Visitors will see a proof-of-work JavaScript prompt and an anime graphic until the challenge completes.

Anubis should work on SeaMonkey and ArcticFox (contrary to other 
checkers like cloudflare),

>
> I hope this restores availability of MacPorts Trac to its previous levels.
>
>
> Let me know if you see problems, but don’t expect quick fixes due to newborn private commitments.
Would you mind removing now user agent filters now

I just tried with ArcticFox browser and cannot access trac.macports.org.
However if I access https://anubis.techaro.lol/ i see the check and the 
browser passes. Wonder what is the difference. Are there settings that 
could differ?

thanks for your patience and reply also privately for some tests, thanks.

Riccardo


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