At work I was asked by a different team how we can deal with bots, because someone in my team remembered that I knew how to do it.
I reluctantly suggested Anubis because I got shit for it last time, This is the URL https://anubis.techaro.lol/
This is the 2nd and last time I will ever recommend Anubis anywhere at work to deal with bots because of how unprofessional, un-serious and weird others perceive it.
The mascot being a ~10 year old "cutsie" anime cat girl is weird in a work setting.
I will never put myself in a situation again where I have to explain that it's not weird to anyone again, same for that URL.
What is a professional looking open-source alternative to Anubis?
Edit: No I can't just send my colleges here https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper The issue is they find the Mascot and domain weird, they will still run into both.
My Goal: Recommend a Open-Source bot protection tool
The Issue: When I send my coworkers to https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper they find the mascot and URL weird.
Result: They don't see Anubis as a serious tool and turn away from it
What is a professional looking open-source alternative to Anubis?
There are alternatives like go-away, iocaine, etc.
You could also just send them a PDF or HTML file explaining how Anubis works, and refuse to send the URL or mascot until they are convinced to implement it.
they can pay a little fee to remove the catgirl, it's pretty clever business plan imho
Not if the stakeholders don't take it seriously enough to even consider it an option let alone agreeing to pay for it ...
I think a lot of people in this thread have missed the point a little. Money isn't everything, and the branding is absolutely doing its job correctly here.
When advertising, you don't just tailor your branding to the customers, but to the customers you want to have.
If you want to have lots of locals visit your restaurant, you post your ad in the local newspaper. This specifically excludes out of towners, and makes sure that everyone that visits is very likely a local, or someone who actually pays attention to local events.
If you want your scam to only reach stupid or mentally incapable people, you make sure to have several typos in your scam email. This filters out most everyone who might catch on halfway through if you had used a better formatted and written scam email.
If you want to exclude people who hate furries, might be transphobic, or otherwise problematic, you add a furry logo to your hobby project and make it very obvious what it is.
Having your branding and advertising filter out the idiots who hate furries is a feature, not a bug.
Thinking something is unprofessional and less likely to be reliable because it uses memes and shit has nothing to do with hating those things, though.
You can enjoy those things and still not trust your website/business security to software that uses it as it's public face.
THAT is what's being missed in this thread.
Like would you give a second glance at choosing something like UwU.jajaja.lol or whatever for your antivirus? It puts out "we don't take this seriously" vibes and that translates to "you shouldn't take us seriously either", which doesn't mech well with a serious software function.
It's a tone mismatch. What Might be fine for a shopping list/fitness tracker/rss feed aggregator might not for a finance app or cyber security
Yes. Currently my office uses a tool called "keep ass" as the primary password database management tool.
If a company can't look past a cartoon mascot, it is best, for the developer of the tool, that company never actually uses the tool in the first place.
You can stop a lot of assholes at the door by putting a rainbow by the door handle. This is the same, and it's working as intended.
Again, nothing to do with assholes.
And the P is capitalized, so the software is not presenting itself as keep ass. Would your company use that software if it actually was? With a cartoon butt as the logo, not a key?
It's not called KeyPass either though. They did KeePass on purpose, and everybody uses it anyways.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't live in that world, so I don't know. My previous employer used it too. It's kinda the standard for password management, just like anubis is. (which has a normal name and silly logo, as opposed to keepass which has a silly name and normal logo).
A butt is not the same as an animal person at all. The fact that you compared a cartoon mascot like Anubis' to a cartoon butt says more about you than it does this conversation. Cartoon animal people as mascots is older than the internet by a mile.
You brought up butts. My point with going to an extreme with that is even you can agree there is a line somewhere where something shifts over the line of "too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes".
You not understanding that, and trying to reframe my argument as equating mascots to butts, says a lot about you. It's also less of a logo and more on the standard of a generic social media profile picture that I'm no way relates to the product.
No I didn't. You did. It's right above my comment. Don't lie. Everybody can see you mentioning butts first.
And my point is that "too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes" being the current state of things is wrong and needs to change to allow for less serious things to exist.
There is a conflict here. There are at least three options to resolve it. Either the company needs to change, anubis needs to change, or the users complaining about the other two groups need to change.
I'm arguing that the company is wrong for not changing. I'm also arguing that the user is wrong for complaining about anubis' branding. Hell, I'm even arguing that anubis is right for choosing to skip out on mainstream branding.
In short, I'm saying that anubis is nowhere near crossing that line.