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.

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    18 hours ago

    Clearly, they haven’t heard of proof of work.

    Ask tor, it helps tremendously.

    Hidden services went from being absolutely horribly unreliable to being very reliable.