Privacy Access Tokens (PATs) – which are stored within your browser and also work for APIs called within the web apps you use – are cryptographic tokens that prove you’re not a bot. Cybercriminals’ use of AI means CAPTCHA prompts are annoying everybody but the bots they are designed to stop – and they could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new priority passes being introduced by the likes of Apple, Google, and Cloudflare.
