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.
Yeah I’m assuming the goal is some kind of cryptographic process that meets the stated goals. Publishing this news before actually having anything is obviously going to lead to nothing but skepticism though.