Cloudflare is working with the makers of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on a new way for websites to tell whether incoming traffic is legitimate – without resorting to the usual mix of CAPTCHAs, logins, and extra tracking.
The system is called Private Access Control Tokens, or PACT, and it arrives at a time when bots have surpassed human traffic online.
This sounds a bit like a passport-stamping scheme. But the passport doesn’t have your name and photo on it. Hopefully it only stores verifiable stamps, but not who stamped it.
I hope they use this to tackle age verification. I’d like to just have a token to prove my age without handing over an actual ID to questionable companies.
Nope, because what they want is not age verification. They want identity verification.