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 lot like fingerprinting under the false flag of making user experience better.
MOZILLA WAS THE CHOSEN ONE. You were supposed to bring balance!
I don’t see any details here that make me understand how sites couldn’t just save the PACT and collude to build profiles.
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.
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.
“DO WE LOOK LIKE BOTS?”
No, but you look like bicycles 😁
