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You can sponsor Anubis right now and start supporting alternatives.

I think you are misunderstanding what cloudflare provides if you think Anubis is an alternative. Even if we only consider bot protection they are completely different solutions.

> I think you are misunderstanding what cloudflare provides if you think Anubis is an alternative...

Do you have an open source alternative especially if you are donating to the project?

Because I would to see Anubis and other alternatives thrive much more than closed ones like Cloudflare.

CDN are by essence proprietary because they are infrastructure vendors. They can be built with open source software but what they are selling isn't software, it's physical servers. The alternative is going on-prem which is impossible for CDN if you aren't google or meta.

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