Cloudflare and major browsers develop PACT to replace CAPTCHAs with anonymous tokens (opens in new tab)

Cloudflare has partnered with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to develop Private Access Control Tokens, a new protocol designed to verify web traffic legitimacy. This initiative aims to distinguish between human users, authorized AI agents, and malicious bots without relying on intrusive tracking or repetitive manual challenges. The protocol allows trusted platforms to issue anonymous digital tokens that a browser can present to other websites as proof of a legitimate session. <a href="