The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that
For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside.
The internet just passed a strange milestone. Bots now generate more web requests than people do. By Cloudflare’s count, automated traffic makes up roughly 57 percent of everything hitting the web.
That shift is the backdrop to a product the company launched on Monday. It is called Cloudflare Precursor, and it changes how the web tells humans and machines apart.
Watching the whole visit, not the doorway
Traditional defences work like a bouncer checking one ID at the gate. A CAPTCHA asks you to prove you are human once, then waves you through. Modern bots are good enough to fake that single moment.
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