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.

  • coolmojo@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.