Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

3recommend
0warn against
Dec 12, 2025first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forauth layer for self-hosted appsblocking ai scrapers on git forge

Why people recommend it

“put something like vouch proxy or oauth2-proxy in front of the endpoint”

“I've been happily using oauth2-proxy[1] with nginx as an extra layer of authentication”

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“My solution was to put the web interface for those repos behind oauth2-proxy”

self-hosts a git forge mirroring large repos for CIon “Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

Who recommends it in their own words

All comments 4

“put something like vouch proxy or oauth2-proxy in front of the endpoint”

“I've been happily using oauth2-proxy[1] with nginx as an extra layer of authentication”

“We are leveraging oauth2-proxy for the login here”

“My solution was to put the web interface for those repos behind oauth2-proxy”

self-hosts a git forge mirroring large repos for CIon “Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers”

Threads where it came up

Data: oauth2-proxy.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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