According to the site server statistics, on 13 March 2009 the number of visits per day exceeded 100000.
[1][2] In 2009, the site won the ROTOR prize as a Digital Library.
On 11 November 2012, Librusec's IP address was added to the Russian Internet blacklist, making it inaccessible from most ISPs in Russia.
[6] According to a leaked copy of the blacklist, the entire website was blocked for a description of marijuana soup in a Russian translation of The Anarchist Cookbook.
[7] The IP address was unblocked on 13 November after The Anarchist Cookbook was removed by Librusec administrators.