Cloudflare chief says humans will soon be 'a rounding error on the Internet' as bot traffic takes over — so what is it doing to combat this?
THE SO WHAT
If Cloudflare expects bot traffic to outnumber humans 1,000:1, identity and traffic classification become the real control plane of the web. Any internet-facing product should assume CAPTCHAs are dead and budget for more sophisticated bot management and user verification.
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