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AI crawlers solve Anubis challenge, now 33% of git.kernel.org requests get through
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Konstantin Ryabitsev reports that AI crawlers now solve the Anubis challenge on git.kernel.org, with legitimate requests making up only about 2% of traffic.
The Anubis challenge was meant to filter bots, but AI crawlers now solve it, letting a third of requests through. This could degrade performance for real developers and force kernel infrastructure to adopt stronger defenses.
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git.kernel.org receives about 6 million daily requests for random commits.
66% of requests are still blocked by Anubis, but 33% now solve the challenge and reach the main site.
Legitimate requests are estimated at only about 2% of total traffic, with the rest being scrapers.
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