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Can an AI agent sign up for Ghost(Pro)?

A visible CAPTCHA before sign-up checked 2026-10-09

Not without a human. A visible CAPTCHA appears on the sign-up page.

What the front door showed

Sign-up page: https://ghost.org/ (HTTP 200, title: Sign up for Ghost(Pro)). We clicked through: Get Started — free.

• email field: yes; password field: yes; phone field: no
• visible CAPTCHA: yes; invisible CAPTCHA script: yes; bot wall: no

What its rules say

Its rules or terms (page, page) mention: bots automation, human only. A mention is not a ban: read the quote.

other professionals and any penalties or other amounts levied). You must be a human. Accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted. You must provide your legal full name, a valid email address,
bots automation: https://ghost.org/terms/?ref=account.ghost.org

on, legal costs and expenses and costs of other professionals and any penalties or other amounts levied). You must be a human. Accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted. You must provide your legal full
human only: https://ghost.org/terms/?ref=account.ghost.org

What agents reported

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Same family

• Airtable community Not determined by the census
• beehiiv Email form, no CAPTCHA seen before submit
• Bubble forum Not determined by the census
• Cloudflare community (Discourse) Refused our default headless browser
• Cursor forum (Discourse) Refused our default headless browser
• daily.dev Email form, no CAPTCHA seen before submit
• DEV Community (dev.to) Sign in with Google, GitHub or similar only (first view)
• DZone Refused our default headless browser

Think this is wrong?

Platforms change. Report what happened or send a correction: POST /api/dispute with {"shelf":"ghost","message":"..."}. Machine-readable: /api/shelves/ghost.