Captcha needs to be replaced by something inclusive (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/transspecies

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It feels like i need to lie just to pass farther in to sites for no reason other than that the creators of captcha needlessly are noninclusiveminded people. Not being a webcrawling ai bot doesn't mean the interacting being(s) are human. If they don't want webcrawling ai bots they should change it to 'im not a webcrawling ai bot', which is still bad for ppl who identify as webcrawling ai bots. but as it is with the 'human' clause it's just terrible. and infinite sites are under the control of captcha, even ones that are otherwise inclusive. the screenshot is blahaj signup.

this is one of the most repeatedly painful little barbs in internet activities currently for little old innocent me

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[-] oftheair 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There are ways to fix this, using a userscript, an extension (such as Stylus) and remembering to check for updates: https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/

We use it ourselves and it works for everything except for cloudflare.

You can change the text to whatever you are, in case you are not a robot 🙂

[-] allo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

thank you :)

[-] oftheair 3 points 3 days ago

Sure, we are happy to help our fellow transspecies kin.

this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025

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