Cloudflare partners with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on privacy-preserving bot detection protocol
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Thomas Claburn
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Cloudflare has partnered with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a privacy-preserving protocol that helps websites distinguish between legitimate human traffic and unwanted bot requests. The initiative aims to combat bot fraud and automated attacks while maintaining user privacy, as the tokens assert that a browsing session is run by a human or bot with legitimate intent without revealing personal information.
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bskyCloudflare partners with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on privacy-preserving bot detection protocoltheregister.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledCloudflare on Monday said that it has joined with the three leading commercial browser makers to create a privacy-preserving protocol that websites can use to separate desirable web traffic from undesirable network requests.
Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a way for websites to generate a digital token that asserts a given browsing session is being run by a human or bot with legitimate intent, as opposed to n
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