I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.
I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2026
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Unless you want this place to wind up like youtube and reddit with zionist AI bots skewing the entire website in favor of israel, no.
Considering that some Moderators in major lemmy.world forums and possibly even an Admin or two are rabid Zionists (the registration e-mail for my user in lemmy.world was literally leaked to Israel and I started getting invitations to "get to know Israel" online events on it, so clearly some Zionist had access to their user database), I think that specifically lemmy.world's anti-bot checks aren't really to stop "Zionist AI bots" unless the very real, very human Zionists in positions of control over the forums and server there think the "human touch" is too important in pro-Israel and pro-Genocide propaganda to have automated Zionist bots around.
I run a site that only advertises itself in one country and is of no interest to anyone else. Cloudflare's threat monitor lists the three countries that it's blocked the most attacks from are:
...and I'm supposed to be scared of the Chinese?
Look over there.
Over there!
Those are the Bad Guys ^TM^
Don't look over here.
Only Good Guys ^TM^ over here.
No need to check. Trust us, we're the Good Guys ^TM^
The pegasus project and PrivateInternetAccess (a vpn service owned by the mossad) are old news. Citizen lab is a new internet research firm in israel that does "zero-click" malware attacks (as in just visiting the page gets you infected):
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/15/israeli-ad-tech-firm-helped-spy-on-al-jazeera-devices
Didn't you get the memo that the Chinese and Russians are the enemy while USA and Israel are the good guys?
Pedo Trump and holocaust netanyahu are our idols in the west, apparently.
That shit is already here though, I dont know what the fix is but there are a lot more argumentative tankies and the like now.