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> Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it. Anubis only serves you the challenge if you have that.

Won't that break many other things? My understanding was that basically everyone's user-agent string nowadays is packed with a full suite of standard lies.

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It doesn't break the two kernel.org domains that the article is about, nor any of the others I use. At least not in a way that I noticed.

In 2025 I think most of the web has moved on from checking user strings. Your bank might still do it but they won't be running Anubis.

Nope, they're on cloudflare so that all my banking traffic can be intercepted by a foreign company I have no relation to. The web is really headed in a great direction :)

The web as a whole definitely has not moved on from that.

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