CAPTCHAs To Be Replaced With Privacy-First Web Verification

Cloudflare has joined forces with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Shopify to develop a new internet protocol designed to help websites distinguish genuine visitors from malicious bots without relying on CAPTCHAs, forced logins or invasive tracking, in what could become one of the biggest changes to how people prove their identity online in decades.

What Is PACT?

The initiative centres on a new technology called Private Access Control Tokens (PACT), which aims to solve a problem that is becoming increasingly urgent as artificial intelligence changes the nature of internet traffic.