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+bots:
+  # Pathological bots to deny
+  - # This correlates to data/bots/deny-pathological.yaml in the source tree
+    # https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/bots/deny-pathological.yaml
+    import: (data)/bots/_deny-pathological.yaml
+  - import: (data)/bots/aggressive-brazilian-scrapers.yaml
+
+  - import: /amazonips.yaml # deny aws ips due to frequent scraper usage
+  - import: /oracleips.yaml # despite the name oraclenhuawei, this is a list ive compiled of datacenter ip ranges used by scrapers
+
+  # Aggressively block AI/LLM related bots/agents by default
+  - import: (data)/meta/ai-block-aggressive.yaml
+
+  # Challenge Firefox AI previews
+  - import: (data)/clients/x-firefox-ai.yaml
+
+  # Allow common "keeping the internet working" routes (well-known, favicon, robots.txt)
+  - import: (data)/common/keep-internet-working.yaml
+
+  - name: whitelist-home-ip
+    action: ALLOW
+    expression:
+      remoteAddress == "REDACTED" # nice try
+
+  - name: fastside
+    action: ALLOW
+    expression:
+      remoteAddress == "194.62.248.14"
+
+  - name: donottrack_strict
+    action: CHALLENGE
+    expression:
+      all:
+        - '"Dnt" in headers'
+        - 'headers["Dnt"] == "1"'
+        - '"Sec-Gpc" in headers'
+        - 'headers["Sec-Gpc"] == "1"'
+        - '"Te" in headers'
+        - 'headers["Te"] == "trailers"'
+        - '"Priority" in headers'
+    challenge:
+      algorithm: fast
+      difficulty: 5
+      report_as: 1
+
+
+  - name: generic-browser
+    user_agent_regex: >-
+      Mozilla|Opera
+    action: CHALLENGE
+    challenge:
+      algorithm: fast
+      difficulty: 3
+      report_as: 1
+
+dnsbl: true
+
+status_codes:
+  CHALLENGE: 200
+  DENY: 429 
+  # ^ | tricks bots into making less requests
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