Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify team up on PACT, a CAPTCHA-free web verification protocol

Bobby Borisov

3h ago· 2 min readenNews

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Cloudflare has announced PACT (Private Access Control Tokens), a new browser-based protocol developed with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify that aims to help websites verify legitimate human traffic without relying on CAPTCHAs, forced logins, or invasive tracking. The initiative is being submitted for standardization and arrives as website operators face growing challenges with bot traffic while seeking privacy-preserving alternatives to traditional verification methods.

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Cloudflare has introduced PACT (Private Access Control Tokens), a browser-based initiative designed to help websites identify legitimate traffic without relying on CAPTCHA, forced logins, or invasive tracking.

The protocol is being developed with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify, with Cloudflare saying the work will be submitted for standardization.

The participating browser vendors include leading names, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge.

As you can guess, the timing is not accidental. This initiative arrives as website operators face increasing au

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Cloudflare, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Shopify introduce PACT, a privacy-first protocol for proving legitimate web access.

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