GNOME’s GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots.
The GNOME Infrastructure team announced they have decided to Fastly for more advanced bot management at the edge. This also offloads bot mitigation to Fastly’s environment at the edge to help lighten the load on their core infrastructure. Fastly is sponsoring GNOME via their Fast Forward program to cover the costs of their bot mitigation.
More details for this latest change in GNOME’s battle with bots and AI scrapers can be found via the GNOME.org Discourse announcing this change.
