PACT: The open web doesn’t need another trust oligopoly

Cloudflare announced PACT this week — privacy-preserving tokens to separate humans from bots, backed by Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Shopify. The cryptography is solid. The governance model doesn’t exist yet. I wrote about why the “ratchet effect” should worry anyone who cares about the open web, how this is Web Environment Integrity re-skinned for the […] The post PACT: The open web doesn’t…