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With private access tokens demo'ed at WWDC2022 [1] as a better replacement for captchas, this problem can be reduced to a great extent. As this becomes an IETF [2] standard that Google and Microsoft and many others will also implement, this will no-doubt be used to solve bots-in-ads problem.

1. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10077/

2. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-private-access-tokens-...



Botnets create traffic from trusted devices. Would the icloud token provider un-trust compromised devices? Sounds like a nightmare.




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