Cloudflare, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Shopify launch PACT: a privacy-friendly protocol to distinguish bots from humans without captchas or tracking.
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I just learned that Cloudflare had partnered with Chrome, Firefox and Edge to fix something that rots us all without us really thinking about it, namely to prove we're human. Their project is called PACT for Private Access Control Tokens, and the idea is to replace the awful CAPTCHA with an anonymous cryptographic titi token that your browser will wander from sites to sites. So how does this new crap work? Well, a site that already has a good re…